I nearly stepped on this little fellow during my morning walk. I thought it was a green tree snake, but a friend says an olive python. Anybody really know?
It was only about 2 foot long in the old measure. I took with 5x enlargement on the smartphone.
We get a lot of Olive Pythons here. We found one 2m long in the tree off our deck chasing birds eggs. They are generally a darker patterned colour than your photo seems with a angular head but maybe that is the immature colour.
We used to breed pythons back in the day and I'm not sure what that is, but I'm confident that it's not an olive python. Also looks too heavy-bodied to be a tree snake... tree snakes are quite thin.
My wife did the snake ID test at the poisons information centre and no one could get any ID right. If it bites , take a photo.
This little fella we found on our walk is a kind of Brown Snake and extremely poisonous if it could get a hold of the skin between your fingers or toes. But some are yellow and some are dark and some have spots and some don’t.
Clearing bush rocks from a north facing paddock in winter every big flat rock had numerous juvi browns under it and they were every colour you could imagine...thankfully they were cold and slow to move .
Try to send your pic to the Queensland museum for a possible identification.
I have difficulty to identify the head,and find the amount of "bends"? in the body strange.
I have never seen one like it.
Cheers