Wildlife watch!
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Postby ghostpoet » Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:18 pm
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Postby Pushy » Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:22 am
That would be the kitten I tried to catch on Del Park Road a few years ago. Honestghostpoet wrote:I've had the bejeesus scared out of me by a monster feral cat on the Mundabiddi to Dandalup Hut just after sunrise. I shrieked like a schoolgirl...
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Re: Wildlife watch!
Postby rider_1 » Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:07 pm
that's brown snake mate, be carefull...Dobo wrote:Hey Rider_1 it was just like that one only more blurey as it and I were moving quite fast at the time. Also just wondering why you have so many pictures of snakes? lol
I can find those photos at the web, easy...
those snakes are ok if you're not disturbing them ....even shy...
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Re: Wildlife watch!
Postby rider_1 » Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:10 pm
is it as big as cheetah ?ghostpoet wrote:I've had the bejeesus scared out of me by a monster feral cat on the Mundabiddi to Dandalup Hut just after sunrise. I shrieked like a schoolgirl...
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Wildlife watch!
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Re: Wildlife watch!
Postby Mattheq » Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:27 am
I estimated that if I hit the skids, I would end up stopped beside the snake while annoying it at the same time, so I had little option but to speed up hope for the best. About 10 metres from the snake, it felt me coming and very quickly (more quickly than I would have thought!) it poised for a strike. 2 metres from the snake, I unclipped and lifted my legs as high as they would go. It struck at my bike as I passed it, and it passed between front and rear wheel - luckily for me. For the next half hour I kept checking my legs for pain / swelling just to be sure I didn't get hit and wasn't aware of it.
Don't know what type of snake it was, but it was over a metre long and quite dark. I don't think I ran over any part of it, but was grrateful it passed between my wheels and didn't get caught up in the spokes. That wouldn't have been very pleasant for me or the snake!
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Re: Wildlife watch!
Postby rider_1 » Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:56 pm
you should be carefull with that snake, could be poisonous, concentrate on the road mate, don't stare on your garmin all the time, dangerous...Mattheq wrote:I was riding back from Mandurah on Sunday and was getting very impressed by the times being served up by the Garmin Edge 500 - so much so that I kept looking at the lap times to see how much I was improving. Just after looking at the Garmin for too long, I looked up to see a dark snake on the path just a few hundred metres south of Walley Bridge.
I estimated that if I hit the skids, I would end up stopped beside the snake while annoying it at the same time, so I had little option but to speed up hope for the best. About 10 metres from the snake, it felt me coming and very quickly (more quickly than I would have thought!) it poised for a strike. 2 metres from the snake, I unclipped and lifted my legs as high as they would go. It struck at my bike as I passed it, and it passed between front and rear wheel - luckily for me. For the next half hour I kept checking my legs for pain / swelling just to be sure I didn't get hit and wasn't aware of it.
Don't know what type of snake it was, but it was over a metre long and quite dark. I don't think I ran over any part of it, but was grrateful it passed between my wheels and didn't get caught up in the spokes. That wouldn't have been very pleasant for me or the snake!
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Postby jaseyjase » Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:19 pm
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Postby just4tehhalibut » Sun Mar 04, 2012 9:53 pm
I'd prefer my snakes to be tyre liners than ninjas. However ...when I was a kid living opposite the bush in Pt Peron I once tied a large rubber snake toy to a bit of fishing line, hid behind bushes and dragged the thing across the road, sure enough cars were aiming at it. So if you're on a bike and see a snake up ahead crossing the road and hear a car coming you know that they'll probably try to run it over, maybe they'll miss and you'll have pissed off fang worm in your face.
On my typical commute between Spearwood and Perth I used to have to watch for glass, bogans, rabbits, magpies, snakes, bobtails, sand left by trailbikes, long neck tortoises, midgies, pig rats (bandicoots) and the other rat, plus the odd fallen tree or branch. I used to get the 25km to work still in doze mode, tell people that I was only truly awake by the time I'd hit the showers at work. Honestly, I don't know how I survived the ride in some days given that I wasn't watching out for all this feral stuff with full attention. Thank you BNA for alerting me.
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Postby rider_1 » Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:09 pm
and I saw cream color lizard at crystal brook road, is it poisonous ? I wanted to take picture actually but I was descending, not easy to pull over and brake....it was narrow road there...
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Re: Wildlife watch!
Postby BandedRail » Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:02 am
Anyone else notice the lack of ducks in the ponds by the Maylands Yacht Club at the moment? It's due to an insanely protective mountain duck dad - saw him chasing a white-faced grey heron the other dayrolandp wrote:It is almost spring time. This morning watched while fellow cyclist ran over the tail end of a duck, who was being very protective of its ducklings. Near The Narrows Smelly Lakes. It wasn't the cyclists fault as this duck goes for anything.
Wood ducks (aka maned geese), mountain ducks and swans are all in aggro mode at the moment so take care when passing. The purple swamp hens are in full breeding plumage too so when their chicks arrive you'll have to watch out for them as well. I've never seen a banded rail chick though...
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Postby BandedRail » Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:13 am
Aushiker wrote:Shared lunch with a pale green/opague thin snake around 45 cm or so long. This was between Mingenew and Geraldton. Any one have any idea as to what type of snake it was? I didn't get a chance to take a photo. As soon as I moved it was off into the grass.
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Possibly a whip snake (Demansia psammophis reticulata)? Or perhaps a legless lizard - they are often mistaken for snakes.
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Postby eldavo » Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:34 am
My highlight was last year when a rider in front nearly hit this guy on Lake Monger path and didn't stop, I passed by, noticed it struggling to cross, went back and found it had its front leg stuck over its head, looking disabled. It untangled when I picked it up and moved it to the scrub line. I don't ride that path now, so probably won't see another.
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Postby Aushiker » Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:47 am
That looks like a reasonable possibilty. It had a distinct black head which very much looked like a snake head so I pretty sure it was a snake and not a legless lizard. The colour but is what caught my attention and of course snakes are well known for having a large variation in colours making it harder to identify them.BandedRail wrote:
Possibly a whip snake (Demansia psammophis reticulata)? Or perhaps a legless lizard - they are often mistaken for snakes.
Thankfully it didn't decide to taste me It was only 200 to 300 cm from me when I saw it.
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Re: Wildlife watch!
Postby Pushy » Tue Aug 21, 2012 1:46 pm
" Distinct black head" ? possibly a hooded snake third one down. Had the Gould (first) share my crib room at the mine.Aushiker wrote:That looks like a reasonable possibilty. It had a distinct black head which very much looked like a snake head so I pretty sure it was a snake and not a legless lizard. The colour but is what caught my attention and of course snakes are well known for having a large variation in colours making it harder to identify them.BandedRail wrote:
Possibly a whip snake (Demansia psammophis reticulata)? Or perhaps a legless lizard - they are often mistaken for snakes.
Thankfully it didn't decide to taste me It was only 200 to 300 cm from me when I saw it.
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Re: Wildlife watch!
Postby argybargy » Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:35 pm
This happened earlier this year on the Kwinana FWY bike path going south, just past Thomas.
Long story short, I managed to get it to go into the bush after i'd finished recording this video as it was safer for all than being scared onto the freeway.
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