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Random JCP's -- Is he the stud that he always promises? Time will tell. Meanwhile, Safi did not appear to mind him hanging around, for a while.
(Morelia s. spilota/variegata hybrid)
After some warmer weather, I spotted this python curled up in the trees in our garden. There it stayed for about two weeks, occasionally moving about during the day or night to hunt for small mammals, bats, reptiles and birds.
(Millbank, NSW)
While visiting my eldest daughter her neighbor decided to drop in bringing with him his pet Carpet Python to show hubby. Needles to say I was not at all impressed as these things put shivers up my spine but I have to admit it does have very pretty markings. I could not resist the opportunity in taking this picture to share with you all.
Jungle carpet python (Morelia spilote cheynei) finishing swallowing mouse. Carpet pythons are native to Australia. Photo by Garren (Garren Evans - April 15, 1971 - August 9, 2008)
Our resident Carpet Python was on the driveway when we got home today, so I grabbed the camera with macro lens and dived out of the truck to grab some shots.
He was about 8 inches away at this point. Eventually he got curious enough to almost lick the lens before I stood up and he slithered back into the bush.
The reddish tones of this carpet python helps it to blend in with the red sand and rock in its arid habitat.
... or so said the sign at Sydney Wildlife World
I need to hurry up and get last month's pictures off my computer so i have room to upload and see my latest pix on the computer. Very frustrating. I want to see my latest pix, but now i'm distracted by things from last month i'd already forgotten about. And i must NOT go out anywhere with my camera again until i clear all the memory cards!
Réalisé le 2 novembre 2011 au Parc National de Lamington, région de Brisbane, Australie.
C'est durant une sortie nocturne que nous avons rencontré ce python. Il mesurait environ un mètre, mais, à cette longueur, les rongeurs ont plus à craindre que les humaines. Seulement éclairé avec nos lampes de poche, c'est le mieux que j'ai pu faire avec ma lentille fixe de 300 mm.
Made on November, 2nd / 2011 in the Lamington NP, Brisabane area, Sidney.
It's during a night outing that we encountered this python. It measured about one meter, but, at this length, the rodents have more to fear than the human. Only lit with our flashlights, it's the best shot that I have been able to take with my 300 mm fixed lens before the snake left .
An adult male Victorian Carpet Python, Morelia spilota metcalfei, basking in the morning sun, Warby Ranges, near Wangaratta, north-eastern Victoria.
Fang is an Australian Centralian Carpet Python normally found in central Australia.
Look incredible viewed on black
The Carpet Python (Morelia spilota mcdowelii). I saw five of these in the last few weeks, which is quite an achievement for me as I'd not seen any before. This one was the largest at about 2m.
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Diamond Python, Morelia spilota, with a well hidden head. Nymboida National Park, NSW, Australia, August 2014.
(Sorry about the boxer shorts I had just jumped out of bed.)
This python cruised our house for a couple of days trying to get the kitten , we lost an earlier kitten this way . We woke to hear a terrible noise and found the snake had the kitten under the house . Dragged it out , untangled the snakes coils but could not release the jaws. The teeth are backwards facing needle like hooks so it's not possible to pull it off without ripping the cat .We tried some ice to the snakes neck and head , which wasn't doing anything , and we were a bit shaken as was the cat and the kids. Eventually I held the snakes neck firmly (with kitten in mouth) and we shook the snakes body, just enough to make it release its jaws . Kitten now licking it's wounds , snake returned to the forest unharmed.
PHEW , what a way to wake up.
(Morelia s. spilota/mcdowelli hybrid)
We occasionally have resident pythons in our house, but never has one been so relaxed and oblivious to our presence. They usually stick to being high up in the rafters but this individual was happy to be anywhere - on the sink, the cupboards, in the lounge room and mainly under or next to the fire place like in the picture. Being into winter, the weather was fairly cool which I suppose made our nice warm house very attractive to the snake.
There will be more shots to come of this visitor whom stayed in our house for over a month.
(Millbank, NSW)
Noticed this big fella firmly coiled around a branch or two perhaps sleeping off a night time meal. That looks like a fair bulge or two in its gut..
See shot 2 following for the mystery surrounding this beast...
(Morelia s. spilota/mcdowelli hybrid)
One final shot of the python that made itself at home in our house during winter. Here it is curled up beneath our fireplace, one of its favourite spots.
As the weather began to warm up again, he disappeared back into the bush.
(Millbank, NSW)
La Menagerie, Jardin des Plantes, Paris, France
Captive (ISIS): subsp. variegata (the one on the photo): 46 males, 33 females, 53 unknowns, 2 new births
Total: 134 individuals
Absolutely no shortage of corellas - short bills, long bills and short/long bill crosses - where we live in the Gold Coast hinterland. Each day we get plenty of these guys coming around to visit and love it when they bring their young to visit.
this was about 6 foot long. The guy who brought it round said it was as big as a hb pencil four years ago when he bought it. What a beauty! It has been a bit of a week for snakie action at my house - for those who dont realise.. Two Rocks is what i would call a 'snake pit', I have never seen so many snakes in my life until i moved here. And those are the ones i see, because they try not to be seen and are very good at it too. Last weekend i took a shortcut down a bush track (barefoot) only to take a step into a pile of baby dugites which scattered left and right of me... Now the question in my head was "do i keep walking, possibly treading on one of these deadly things, or do i stop walking" i decided to keep walking and for a few steps there were snakes on either side of me, keeping a little bit ahead of me at about the same speed. I figured if i stopped, they all might come back into a group which would result in me standing in a nest of dugites. Then a few days later, i went to turn on the tap to give the dogs a drink only to be confronted by a recoiling dugite ON THE TAP which was also a bit thirsty. It was about the same size as the ones i had stepped into a few days earlier. Maybe it was following me? I was forced to exclaim "CRIKEY!" and do a bit of a steve irwin type dance around whilst i got the dogs away. Very interesting my life is sometimes. Then it goes dead boring for months at a time.
Absolutely no shortage of corellas - short bills, long bills and short/long bill crosses - where we live in the Gold Coast hinterland. Each day we get plenty of these guys coming around to visit and love it when they bring their young to visit.