Posted March 28, 200619 yr I have just just watched the forum Memorial Video and its got me thinking about little Princess and her Mysterious passing.. I have since had 2 Adult birds pass on with no obvious reasons, two chicks have been found dead and many eggs have been going walkabout :glare: .. Well I have just finished "extending" the aviary and today I was in there making it all pretty (as you do).. I was sitting on my little stool with scissors in hand, cutting the grass I have a blue tongue lizard running about the bottom and have lots of hidey holes for him to sleep in, i would have thought my aviary was pretty well snake proof until... i saw it... Well actually i touched it lucky it had a full belly and was snoozing. I phoned the "Snake Man" to come and get rid of it for me, I was glad to discover it was only a tree snake but most likely to be the cause of the mysterious aviary deaths and happenings. So now with the extra resident removed i may have a little more success with the birds and hopefully no more passings.. Actually I will probably have healthy dogs again too, they have been unwell for a while now and they seemed to always hang about where the snake was hiding, we just thought they were chasing little geckos and skinks and the cane toad licking was making them sick ... Time will tell .. Cheers :beer: Una
March 28, 200619 yr Oh dear! I think I'd still be running and screaming! Thankfully I live in the suburbs, and it's unlikely I will see any thing as scary as that! Hope you found your solution!
March 28, 200619 yr And that is why I will never emigrate to Australia! Aah... lovely safe England. I'm in agreement with Lin, I'd have been in the running and screaming brigade. :glare: I guess an aviary must luck like a veritable lunch-box to a snake! That must have been such a shock. Did you figure out how it got in there? I guess you'll have to do some further snake-proofing now?
March 28, 200619 yr What a shock for you !! :glare: At the same time, an answer for the mystery....you must be both relieved and still in shock over the discovery. Wishing you all the best for the future life of all in your aviary :angel1: Oh dear! I think I'd still be running and screaming! Thankfully I live in the suburbs, and it's unlikely I will see any thing as scary as that! Hope you found your solution! Lin, dugites and other snakes are most commonly removed from suburban back yards. They are in epidemic proportions attracted to mice around aviaires and palmtrees. Palmtrees planted everywhere house both mice and large wood cockroaches....the snakes favourite foods. Keep your eyes peeled. My friend has nests of dugites every year in her yard at her Marangaroo home (her standard poodles find them). I found baby dugites under my dog kennel at my house in Heathridge.
March 28, 200619 yr Ohh lucky your okay. I hope thing turn for the better now. Thankfully I live in the suburbs, Then you get the ones that think rooms are a nice place to stay :glare:
March 28, 200619 yr Oooh, don't say that Nerwen! I already have those huge cockroaches that think I;m running a hotel outside! I live right on the edge of the country too, but I have a huge sign out the front saying 'Snakes, go that way ->' :glare:
March 28, 200619 yr :(Laughing out loud): I have bush land (park and river) over the road. and it was only a one off a few years back (maybe 6?) and only a little tree snake too but boy did I jump when the 'stick' moved just as I was about to step beside it.
March 28, 200619 yr Glad you found it what could be the cause Una. The most I have seen here where we live in term of snakes, is gardener snakes and that is enough to give me the creeps.
March 28, 200619 yr Author Lucky enough i think i have found where the snake got in through.. and whats even more lucky is thankfully it was only a tree snake considering only a couple of months ago i had a 4 foot Taipan out on the back patio (near the aviary) Yikes, thats a snake i don't want to be going touching.. i've been bitten by one of those already, NOT FUN.. Mind you i don't mind snakes and we often get Pythons about the place.. This one had the sweetest little nature, I just wanted to keep him .. The back of my house heads out onto the golf course and then its just BUSH.. we get all sorts of things here but the most odd was around Christmas time, we had a Huge Black Boar running down the street Cheers :beer: Una
March 28, 200619 yr Oh, what a cute snake! I want it! I think i could do without a taipan in our yard though!
