A Red-lipped Herald snake visited this morning. It was enjoying the wet weather I suppose – we had a real downpour last night and this morning. So it was probly out hunting frogs. This was a little one, about 300mm long, I guess.
A couple days later an even smaller one made its way under the door. Played dead when he saw me. He also got shipped out to the garden.
Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia The story goes that its presence was first mentioned in the Eastern Cape Herald Newspaper, hence the name.
This poor fella fluttered in and died. A Forest Brown, maybe?
And an offshore visitor: A juvenile Brown Booby flying and floating just behind the backline. Seen from the deck off my upstairs bedroom three days in a row. A ‘lifer’ for me!
~~oo0oo~~
I thought its poisonous . But Google said its not 🙂
Hmmm. I wish I could say finding a snake makes me happy. But I did find the most beautiful little tree snake (bright yellow / green) in a pot plant. The plant had been invaded by fat caterpillars and I think he was doing some fine dining on them. He did not hang around though, I would love to have got a picture.
Lovely snake. Unlikely to munch on caterpillars methinks. This fella? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrelaphis_punctulatus?