Thread: What's in your garden?

^ In the interim, you probably know already make noise when walking, stamp you feet a few time in your are going in in longer grass or under growth. To have that many snakes there must be a good food source near by. Re the compast heap be very careful, its ideal nesting material for snakes.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

^ To have that many snakes there must be a good food source near by. .

Judging by the frog chorus at night it's an all you can eat buffet for snakes ! That goes with having rice paddies over the back wall I guess.

Originally Posted by mikenot

So it seems we have 2 golden Tree Snakes in our garden...you wouldn't want to be a gecko around our place.

Very attractive snakes those. I once had one in the house, hiding in the sofa, only found it because the dogs were going mental.
At this time of year we get a lot of snake activity, they follow the frogs. Usually it is the dogs who find them first. Recently we had a Copperhead racer then an Oriental ratsnake. They are feisty things, big too, non-venomous but very bitey. So far the dogs have gotten a few bites in but each time the snake has got away.
Over the last few years I have learned to keep the grass short around the house, which is quite a lot of work at this time of year and I usually accidentally chop up a few frogs that don't move quickly enough.
Also I reckon all the diurnal snakes around here are non-venomous. That said, I am cautious at dusk because there has been a Monocled cobra about and late one night I went out to check on the dog barking and he had found a Banded krait.
I am happy enough to let the snakes be, but the dogs hunt them down.

Never seen anything here other than harmless green tree snakes.

A monocled cobra would have me running, for sure - the most dangerous snake in the land.

Mrs Bld is enjoying a constant crop of papayas for her papaya salad fix, saves a shitload of cash from not having to buy them to

^Fantastic crop Lao

The bats usually get mine once they start to turn peach coloured and give off the ripeness odour that carries for miles on the wind

coonts!