Something knocking on our door.........

[BigShed]

Doing some reading after lunch and there was something knocking on our sliding door to the patio.

On closer inspection it was the Bearded Dragon that floats around our house garden, obviously picking insects off the door.

Went out and took some photos and he soon told me not get too close!

 

[mredburn]

Thats really neat.

 

[Drstrangefart]

All we get are tiny lizards with blue tails that the dog really, REALLY wants to eat, but can't catch.

 

[BigShed]

This is only one of the lizards that we frequently get in our garden, as well as some interesting snakes.

One of the frequent lizard visitors is a Blue Tongue Lizard

The most common snake we get is the Eastern Brown Snake, they get right close to the house in early spring when the weather starts to warm up after winter.

We pick up quite a few shed skins from those.

Talking about skins, the first thing I thought about when I was watching that Bearded Dragon thorugh the view finder was "that skin would look good on a pen"!

Sad isn't it?:biggrin:

 

[Russianwolf]

Fred, I don't think he was telling you to stay away.......

To me that looks like a


FEED ME

expression.

 

[BigShed]

Fred, I don't think he was telling you to stay away.......

To me that looks like a


FEED ME

expression.

I don't think that is what his very lud hiss tranlated to!

 

[sumterdad]

That hiss was his way of asking you to scratch his back:biggrin:

 

[firewhatfire]

that hiss was saying skin me out and put me on a pen tube. at least it would at my house.

Phil

 

[islandturner]

The most common snake we get is the Eastern Brown Snake, they get right close to the house in early spring when the weather starts to warm up after winter.

Good grief, Fred. I remember seeing the late Steve Irwin on TV, catch and discuss these critters. Aren't they considered one of the most dangerous snakes in Australia? Geeez, and I thought our mosquitos were bad....!

Steve

 

[BigShed]

The most common snake we get is the Eastern Brown Snake, they get right close to the house in early spring when the weather starts to warm up after winter.

Good grief, Fred. I remember seeing the late Steve Irwin on TV, catch and discuss these critters. Aren't they considered one of the most dangerous snakes in Australia? Geeez, and I thought our mosquitos were bad....!

Steve

Taking risks like that may have something to do with the fact that he is now "the late" Steve Irwin.

Personally I wouldn't try and catch a Brown Snake but each to his own.

Yes, they are amongst the most poisonous snakes.

Here are a couple in our house garden, in case you are wondering why I got so close, the photos were taken through the window of our guest bedroom:wink:.

Not long after taking these photos I was working in the shed with the door open and heard this strange "swishing" noise, when I looked a big male Brown Snake had decided to come in to the shed, the "swishing" noise was him moving over the concrete floor. Heart rate went up a notch or 2 as he passed by me within a foot and kept on going. He went under the dust extractor and when I took a closer look I just saw the last of his tail move through an opening in the wall. Needless to say that opening has since been closed!

 

[Andrew_K99]

The most common snake we get is the Eastern Brown Snake, they get right close to the house in early spring when the weather starts to warm up after winter.

"This snake is considered the second most venomous land snake"

And this is why I love living in Canada. I don't have to worry about what I step on in the garden!

AK

 

[BigShed]

The most common snake we get is the Eastern Brown Snake, they get right close to the house in early spring when the weather starts to warm up after winter.

"This snake is considered the second most venomous land snake"

And this is why I love living in Canada. I don't have to worry about what I step on in the garden!

AK

Andrew you have probably a bigger statistical chance of being shot by a hunter during season in Canada than I have being bitten by a snake

 

[Andrew_K99]

The most common snake we get is the Eastern Brown Snake, they get right close to the house in early spring when the weather starts to warm up after winter.

"This snake is considered the second most venomous land snake"

And this is why I love living in Canada. I don't have to worry about what I step on in the garden!

AK

Andrew you have probably a bigger statistical chance of being shot by a hunter during season in Canada than I have being bitten by a snake

Well, this could be wrong, as the information is off the internet but that is incorrect.

Approx. 1000 people are injured in Canada and the US per year by hunting accidents. While approx. 3000 people are bitten by snakes each year in Australia (of which 200 to 500 receive antivenom).

So, you have about a 1 in 10,000 chance of being bitten by a snake and I have a 3 in one million chance of being hurt in a hunting accident.

I'll take my chances :biggrin:.

 

[BigShed]

........and how many of those hit by a bullet don't live to tell the tale?

There ain't no "ant-bullet" remedy, but there is an anti-venom:biggrin:

 

[Andrew_K99]

........and how many of those hit by a bullet don't live to tell the tale?

There ain't no "ant-bullet" remedy, but there is an anti-venom:biggrin:

LMAO, good point.

AK

 

[HSTurning]

Beardeds make great pets. But that guy is quite upset by the color of his neck.