what wildlife are you seeing?

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Freightdog wrote: ↑Sat Jun 04, 2022 4:04 pm Small snake. A curious creature. Small, 30-40cm long, about 1/2 cm at the body, flat head, olive greenish colour.
The various kids here were curious, but a little cautious. I’d post a picture of it, but we ran into a problem.

One of the kids was going to antagonise it with a pointy stick, and while I was trying to discourage some of the impending stupidity, one of the super brave adults got a big fucking stick, and smashed the snake to death, and saved all the children from being killed. Apparently. Despite the snake doing as much as it could to stay away from people.
My gut feeling was the snake was actually quite content being in a shaded location until ape-man saved us all.
Now, it just looks like all the other road kill, but I’d like to know what it was.
Most snakes will hide from us ape-man, but on the other hand, while hiding we might unintentionally step on its' sensitive tail and it might forget all about the agreement between 'ape-man and snake'. I let them roam, as long as they remain unnoticed and don't prey on my chicken or their eggs (hard for snakes), but once noticed, I go for the kill. Not talking about pythons here. I think that's a different class.
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Sadly, this poor creature had all the threatening presence of a blunt butter knife, let alone the single barrel sawed off bamboo stick that ended its presence. swmbo’s niece’s feckwit husband now knows without a shadow of a doubt what I think of him.
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