Post by mirabelle on Aug 28, 2012 9:09:42 GMT 1
Its only in the past week that we have seen these beasties, first off they were basking on a prostrate conifer but then something altogether more sinister. They are hunting my little green froggies!!
In fact last week my daughter and I were feeding the fish when there was a huge commotion & loud agonising croaking right below our feet, this 'orrible snake had grabbed a frog by the leg and was trying to drag it away. Maybe if I'd thought about it I would'nt have grabbed the snake by the end of it's tail and flipped it like a whip, in doing which the frog flew into the air and landed on the grass some distance away & said snake lay coiled on the grass glaring at me angrily! I took my chicken rounding-up stick and whizzed him into the bushes pronto. UGH!
My daughter rushed over to find the little frog but he was Ok and hopped off back to his hidey-hole, slightly better aware of horrible snakes methinks.
Later that day the previous owner of the house called in to say hello so I mentioned my encounter with these snakes because I'd never seen one at my old house. "Oh yes" he said "We used to collect them as kids - the orchard is full of them.........."
ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
I am now obsessed with finding more of the darned things now everywhere I go!!
In fact last week my daughter and I were feeding the fish when there was a huge commotion & loud agonising croaking right below our feet, this 'orrible snake had grabbed a frog by the leg and was trying to drag it away. Maybe if I'd thought about it I would'nt have grabbed the snake by the end of it's tail and flipped it like a whip, in doing which the frog flew into the air and landed on the grass some distance away & said snake lay coiled on the grass glaring at me angrily! I took my chicken rounding-up stick and whizzed him into the bushes pronto. UGH!
My daughter rushed over to find the little frog but he was Ok and hopped off back to his hidey-hole, slightly better aware of horrible snakes methinks.
Later that day the previous owner of the house called in to say hello so I mentioned my encounter with these snakes because I'd never seen one at my old house. "Oh yes" he said "We used to collect them as kids - the orchard is full of them.........."
ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
I am now obsessed with finding more of the darned things now everywhere I go!!
