SVL: 1.62 m
Tail: 177 mm
Scales
Midbody: 21 (2 measures)
Ventral: 247 (1 measure)
Subcaudal: 55 (1 measure)
This is my first personal fatality in 45 years.
Same specimen as the previous two observations: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/231550065 and https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/231570996.
Photos taken on release in the same place where it was found.
Crossing the road at 8c
Same specimen as the previous observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/231550065. Photos taken of the temporarily captive specimen for the purpose of future ID and monitoring of the individual’s movements. Length now estimated at 105 – 110cm.
Skin off red-bellie black
Not sure. Photographed entirely by happenstance - didn't realize it was there at the time, I was trying to get photos of two scrubwrens in the vicinity that I realize, on reflection, were agitated by the presence of the snake! So no photo of the head end. Too dark in colour I think to be a keelback or an eastern brown and too thick to be a tree snake. I think it had been basking on the creek bank. Only a minute or less later a mob of noisy miners turned up and began going crazy ... at the time I thought they were taking exception to the scrub-wrens but now I think they were most likely objecting to the snake.