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??? I thought we had them all over here.
They take nice pics if you get them to arc up a bit. 
They are highly effective.
They are highly effective.
snakes are more scared of you, than you are scared of them! treat them with respect, they are part of the australian "ecosystem"
learn to live with them rather than have a hissy fit......just sayin!
You can send an email to these guys: www.snakecatchers.com.au/index.php they will ID it and reply with what it is. There are also numbers listed for your local Snake Catcher. We had an Eastern Brown removed from near our swimming pool a few weeks back, it now lives west of Brisbane.
Whew! We just had a gang of those long skinny olive ones slithering around the doors this arvo. I haven't seen them before. We get the occasional python and they can be impressive but these little guys are quick. I'm in Brisbane western suburbs too.
I hope they are tree snakes but I suppose they could be Brown snakes. I'm not going to get close enough to find out.
They are all protected I understand so you shouldn't be killing them.
OK, Fine. Thank you . That is the reason for my post in first place.
I would like to know what do you people do when you need to deal with snakes.
I asked for your advice 
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So far response I have is everything from take care with spade or garden hoe, professional snake relocation to ignoring them completely.
I guess some of you leraned to deal with the problem from generations here, surviving on the outback at farms where easy and quick solution works the best, some others live in city apartments and whole problem seems to be more philosophical and abstract.
I am not really worry about myself but neighbors families have very young children, running and playing in the bushes (that is acreage island surrounded by dense city location) . I am not also worry about harmless tree snakes and pythons even but reports of brown snake are very common here.
The last thing I want to see is suffering one of the my good neighbors and knowing that there was time I could do something to prevent disaster
coming from a family with deep roots in the bush I can say that the idea is to either shoot them or chop them up with a shovel. then burry them because they can still administer a deathly bite if you stand on them when they are dead.
now that theory is based on the fact that to get to a hospital in a regional area is difficult at best. a snake bite is a death sentence. watching a stockman take out a brown or black snack with a whip from the back of a horse is a sight to be hold.
the other thing you will see in rural areas is a well maintained lawn around the house, no long grass. snakes are going to be around piles of wood and chicken coops and in long grass. so that's where you be more careful. when walking through long grass make noise to convince them to move on.
mow your grass. clean up your gardens etc. then you can see them. oh yeah, get rid of any vermin in and around your house. snakes will come into your house chasing a meal of them.
me personally, i'd remove any snake I come across because of my kids. depending on how aggressive it is and where it is depends on whether I call the snake catcher or grab the shovel.
brown snakes usually hang out in pairs.
I was pretty surprised to read in the qld wildlife book linked on page 1 that swamp tigers are considered harmless.
certainly weren't when I was growing up.
swamp tiger is not a tiger snake. it's another name for a brown tree snake or night tiger.
while they are not harmless, they're not deadly. they love roof cavities & exposed rafters (at our house anyway).
i reckon you're better off using a piece of fencing wire about 4 feet long with a handle bent into it to kill a snake. swing it like a whip. a shovel is way too clumsy & risky, and the snake can see what you're doing. they never know the wire is coming until it's too late...
ah I see the swamp tiger is the keelback. yeah seen many of those growing up but didn't know they weren't venomous. just called them all tigers.
saw a few of the eastern tigers also. that one seemed to cause the most deaths. kids jumping into dams and landing on nests and getting nailed.
saw a lot of black snakes and browns at school. everyone was in fear of those 2.
the snake most likely around the house was the green tree snake. of course they were brown but go figure. my brother wound one up once inside the house and it went mental. I've never seen him freak out like he did that day. it took the snake a while to figure out how to get traction on the tiles but when it did it went him because he had made it so angry.
In that case I know nothing about swamp tigers so whatever they say in regard to that snake, is probably true.
We only have the one sort here, and they bite.
Also, I know there are better things to dispense them with. The trouble is, I never have anything other than a spade close by when I come across them. After a while, spades are good for almost anything.
Spades are also better if they get into scrub or long grass.
You can still dispense with it even if the front half of the snake is competely hidden, as is often the case.
They are not real smart. They must think if the front half is hidden the rest of it must be as well.
Also, if it gets away after being seriously cut with a spade, it will die anyway.
They don't live in hygenic surrounds so any serious cut will probably be fatal in the longer term.
But a length of chain or twisted fence wire does a great job if you have some close by and can get a good swing at it out in the open.
It's the kind you whack with a stick, or whatever you have. In California we had rattlers, now in Hawaii we don't have any snakes whatsoever
I think your best bet would be to let it bite you. If you live its not dangerous, if you die, it is.
Please post your out come.
We live quite close to Brisbane and have considerable amounts of bushland nearby and so we regularly get snakes both in the yard and in the house. If they are spotted in the yard we generally leave them alone, we may try and persuade them to go across the road into the bush - a long handled broom is usefull for this. We recently had a carpet snake in the bathroom - I didn't stay long once I saw it. I just closed the door so it couldn't enter the rest of the house, but left the window open so it could exit the way it entered, eventually it did. Now carpet snakes/pythons may not be venemous but they do bite (if you stand on them - I don't blame it I imagine its an automatic self defence mechanism - bastard) but the bite can be more dangerous as it can contain diseases from all the rubbish/rodents they eat. A trip to the hospital for that one. As for the Eastern Brown, I saw it one morning, went and got the camera, took some pics, emailed them off to the website in my previous post. I wasn't impressed with what it was considering I would have been within striking distance had it been active - luckily it was morning when I first saw it. Where it was located was near the pool filter and with summer approaching (kids in the pool/ my father in the yard/snake mating season) we chose to have it relocated by the professionals if we saw it again. I was also given similar suggestions re killing it etc, but really didn't feel like putting myself in any danger. I saw it again for about 4 afternoons and then on the next morning it stayed in roughly the same spot long enough the snake catchers to arrive and catch it. They make it look so easy.
They suggested, clearing the plants from the near the path as snakes like having a quick escape from sunning, plus the other things already mentioned.
Macro, I would be pretty sure that is a harmless green tree snake. (they are often brown)
The others are as mentioned are a Bandi Bandi and Carpet Snake and also are relatively harmless.
Do a google search for Brown Snake so you know what they look like... They are thicker and have a much more bullet like, rounded head. Pythons generally have an angular "arrow head" shape with a skinny neck behind.
Brown tree snake: 
Brown Snake: 
Please don't kill any snakes. If you think one is poisonous and is hanging around or is in your house call someone on here to remove it...http://www.wildlifeqld.com.au/Snake_catcher_directory.html
Otherwise leave it alone - most likely it will be gone before you know it.
