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"ant" wrote in message
erk. I think I just go dig around in my suspect clumps, looking for purple. There must be someone around you who could identify it for you. Any farers near you? They usually know their weeds And lay in supplies for the Paterson's, it's sneaking around everywhere. I had a wondeful backpack silver squirt thing (my block is steep), but got a bit too ambitious and kept spraying too far into spring one year. It was a warm, humid heavy day, a snake day, and I was in the middle of a huge colony of Paterson's, keeping a hard eye on everything on the ground, and there is was, lying under a small tree, a brown, just looking at me. Well, me and the backpack parted company and neither of us touched the ground for about 30 seconds. I swear I levitated out of that mass of Patersons. Phobic about snakes. The backpack spent the summer there, and now the seals are buggered and it doesn't work any more. Bloody snakes. You have my sympathies. I have a brown that lives somewhere near my front door and a tiger that lives somewhere near my back door. I asked for a shotugn for Xmas and my dopy husband bought me a camera. I fail to understand how he could possibly mix up my comment about wanting to shoot something in such a way. |
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Farm1 wrote:
You have my sympathies. I have a brown that lives somewhere near my front door and a tiger that lives somewhere near my back door. I asked for a shotugn for Xmas and my dopy husband bought me a camera. I fail to understand how he could possibly mix up my comment about wanting to shoot something in such a way. There's a giant eastern brown in my rock wall, and it doesn't care about me at all. Whenever I see it, I borrow the family's .22, naturally I don't see the snake again for months. I've been thinking next time I see it sliding into the wall, I should pour some kero or something in there, and chuck in a match. I hate those things. I encourage the magpies and kookaburras, but that snake is way too big for them to tackle. A brown and a tiger, yuck. You see a lot of tigers up on in the Snowy in the summer, I just can't walk up there in summer any more. I've seen a giant black here, but the rest are eastern browns. -- ant |
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"ant" wrote in message
... Farm1 wrote: You have my sympathies. I have a brown that lives somewhere near my front door and a tiger that lives somewhere near my back door. I asked for a shotugn for Xmas and my dopy husband bought me a camera. I fail to understand how he could possibly mix up my comment about wanting to shoot something in such a way. There's a giant eastern brown in my rock wall, and it doesn't care about me at all. Whenever I see it, I borrow the family's .22, naturally I don't see the snake again for months. I've been thinking next time I see it sliding into the wall, I should pour some kero or something in there, and chuck in a match. I hate those things. Yeah me too - much too edgy a snake, but the major number of bites are from Tigers apparently. I've tried to kill the Tiger with an air rifle but I've decided that the only way to do it is a shotgun - I'm not a good enough shot to kill it without a scattering pellet effect. I encourage the magpies and kookaburras, but that snake is way too big for them to tackle. A brown and a tiger, yuck. You see a lot of tigers up on in the Snowy in the summer, I just can't walk up there in summer any more. I've seen a giant black here, but the rest are eastern browns. We have a giant black that lives under the house at our other farm but I don't mind them - they are a fairly gentle snake. |
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