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

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.

rat snake

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.