Totally amazing. it was too fast to get my camera. I'm stunned.
The mouse came onto the lawn, I presume to get some of the food that the birds had dropped, presumption only. A brown snake hit it. it came from behind my bird bath, I presume it was waiting there.  So fast. I'm not going out to check.

Oh wow

Quote from: Cindy James on January 20, 2012, 03:13:50 AM
Totally amazing. it was too fast to get my camera. I'm stunned.
The mouse came onto the lawn, I presume to get some of the food that the birds had dropped, presumption only. A brown snake hit it. it came from behind my bird bath, I presume it was waiting there.  So fast. I'm not going out to check.

Oh wow

Holy god that's nat geo stuff.

The closest I've come to that was at one of my houses in Alabama, there was an alley behind my house (almost as many alleys as roads in Birmingham), and it wasn't well-paved or well-lit. One day I was walking down it and an owl flew right by my head and grabbed a rat that had run into the road a few feet ahead of me. Lol until then I didn't even know we had owls.

I couldn't believe how fast the snake moved, mice are fast, this thing went about half a meter in a blink, jaws open, mouse had no chance.

I'm still in shock

Quote from: Cindy James on January 20, 2012, 03:13:50 AM
Totally amazing. it was too fast to get my camera. I'm stunned.
The mouse came onto the lawn, I presume to get some of the food that the birds had dropped, presumption only. A brown snake hit it. it came from behind my bird bath, I presume it was waiting there.  So fast. I'm not going out to check.

Oh wow

Wow! I've not seen many snakes in metro Adelaide.. Now that it's had a snack, it's a good time to call the snake removal peoples, it won't be so quick...

I'm doing so, it should be sleepy for a few days.

I was use to them in the hills but here!!! But mice are snake food, and where there is food there will be things to eat it.

Wait, yall have "snake removal people?"

I'm moving there to start a BBQ 'Snake Snacks on a Stick' Company      Chips with that?

I have an aunt who lives on a swamp, and she pays young guys to get the alligators out of her yard. But still. Lol. Aren't non-poisonous snakes welcome?

Quote from: V M on January 20, 2012, 03:40:53 AM
I'm moving there to start a BBQ 'Snake Snacks on a Stick' Company      Chips with that?

V I am vegetarian, mostly vegan, but I'll deviate from that to support your business.

Quote from: Felix on January 20, 2012, 03:42:04 AM
I have an aunt who lives on a swamp, and she pays young guys to get the alligators out of her yard. But still. Lol. Aren't non-poisonous snakes welcome?

If a carpet python or the like moved in to my yard, no problems.. Brown snakes are venomous.. and the anti-venom is almost as bad as the bite..

Browns are the second most venomous snake the world but they are not very aggressive. That said a man died recently from a brown bite, it was in his shoe, it was less than 10mins.

Quote from: Cindy James on January 20, 2012, 04:00:35 AM
Browns are the second most venomous snake the world but they are not very aggressive. That said a man died recently from a brown bite, it was in his shoe, it was less than 10mins.

I've had a very poor opinion of browns since one bit my dog when I was a kid and then decided to curl up for a snooze about 2 feet away.. My step-dad converted it to a fine red mist with his 12 gauge..

We have people we are professional snake catchers, they are very good.

I have a colleague  who runs a snake farm, they produce the venom to make the vaccines. Totally fascinating. He is down to one more bite, he has an anaphylatic reaction to the anti-venene. The next bite will kill him one way or another.  You do what you do.

Quote from: Cindy James on January 20, 2012, 04:00:35 AM
Browns are the second most venomous snake the world but they are not very aggressive. That said a man died recently from a brown bite, it was in his shoe, it was less than 10mins.

Quote from: kelly_aus on January 20, 2012, 03:52:48 AM
If a carpet python or the like moved in to my yard, no problems.. Brown snakes are venomous.. and the anti-venom is almost as bad as the bite..

Here's a couple links   

http://www.avru.org/general/general_eastbrown.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_brown_snake

Know what you mean.

There is the Australian classic of the cat sitting on the front lawn. Dead. Received a snake bite. and just dies in a frozen position.

Haha wow okay. Where I grew up we had water moccasins, but I've been living for years in a place where nothing is poisonous. Once in awhile somebody in southeastern Oregon will get bit by a scorpion, but you have to be pretty old or drunk or otherwise immunocompromised for that to be a problem. We got some brown recluse spiders brought in by accident a couple years ago. But all in all, I live in one of the most harmless places ever. I forgot about deadly stuff just wandering around.

We get Hobo spiders and an occasional rattlesnake where I'm at

A train full of people going to work in Boston.

A train full of people coming home from work in Boston.

tram No. 49, cars, leafless trees waving in the wind