Snake in the garden

[sandyf]

Saw this one lurking in the corner of the garden, any ideas.

[lonewolf99]

It is not a cobra. An its not a viper. It is hard to tell in the photo but the large eye makes me think it is a red necked keelback. Which are common here and are venomous to humans but not fatal. If I am wrong on that its a water snake on my 2nd guess. Sadly unless you are a real Herpetologist and i am not it is not easy to tell. Many snakes can be just plain dull olive green and have sparce patterns making it difficult to actually determine species.

Best left alone - the only people who get bitten are the ones who dick around with them. stay away and it will do you no harm.

[jeanpierre]

rat snake

[sandyf]

rat snake

Looks the most likely. Its not a water snake, we have had a few of those. It got very aggressive when my wife tried to move it. We have a lot of cats and they are always after the snakes.

[guzzi850m2]

We had this one in our garden when we moved in, in 2009.

I gave it a gentle knock on the head with a stick and It quickly disappeared.

It was app 2 mtr long, beautiful snake.

We seen many others during the years but not so prominent displayed as this one.

I am amazed that they can live so close to humans without us noticing them most of the time.

[sabian]

The first one looks like a Keelback got lots of them too, until recently thought safe but now deemed dangerous. Pretty quick too. Second one is a Golden tree snake virtually harmless but even faster lol.

[Bredbury Blue]

Those green tree snakes are super quick. Saw one I my garden and when, it saw me move it shot up the mango tree and vanished. So I'm very impressed with the quality photo above and giving it a tap on the head.

[patekatek]

Try sending an email with a photo of the snake to:

Boonchuay Rompochee

<[email protected]>

I have sent photos of several snakes I've photographed around our place in Kaeng Krachan and he has responded in short order with the species.