Melbourne Snakes in search for food are on the hunt. Melbourne’s very cold winter, record breaking frosts and lack of decent rainfall have made life a bit tough. Everyone is doing it tough coming into spring. Plants are suffering and that has a flow on effect through the food chain. When rainfall is low, flower production is less abundant, insect numbers are lower, animals reproduction rates are less prolific. Everything has to work harder to get a feed and sometimes search desperately to find food. My own winter/early spring crop of vegetables suffered. I refused to water them, in the hope of a decent downpour or two.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over the last week I have received heaps of calls about snake sighting’s. Spring is the time when Melbourne snakes as well as all reptiles become active. https://snakecatchermelbourne.com.au/melbourne-snakes-faq/snakes-of-melbourne/ Unfortunately I have witnessed at least 10 Blue Tongue Lizards that have been ran over. There were two in my own street. It’s really sad that they end up this way. I see a lot of animals end up this way whilst on the road going to snake call out jobs.

 

Snake activity

One particular day Eastern Brown Snakes were sited all over Melbourne, most quickly disappearing frantically in search of a rodent or two. When this happens there is no point calling a Snake Catcher out for a search. It will most likely waste the catchers time and your money. 

 

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Tiger Snakes have been active almost every day and a couple in the dark at night. I have also had a few run ins with Copperheads. I have made one interesting observation this season. Usually snakes caught in September and October have a bulge in their stomach. I haven’t witnessed that in many snakes so far, they are hungry. 

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