31/05/2025
LAST CATCH OF THE SEASON! Or is it…..?
During the week we had some rather pleasant weather. Chilly in the air, but out in the sun, it was rather glorious.
So much so, this Dugite thought he’d make the most of it before settling in to brumate for the winter months.
He decided to casually just stroll - and sit - in the middle of a carpark in Maddington. Ya know, as you do.
Fortunately, he was content to hang out and wait for his uber (me) to take him to a more suitable bush spot.
While there are tracks of bush and creek throughout Maddington, and clearly these snakes have been living there a long time, it does make releasing them a bit hard.
It’s a fine line between saving a snake from humans, and releasing them close to where they are found but then potentially running into further hazards, or taking them further away, into better bushland, but it not being their home territory.
It is a legitimate struggle every time we do this, and all we can hope, is that we make the right decision every time.
A quick show and tell for the small crowd of concerned shop staff, and health look over, and then released into some large bush land.
As you can see, despite being warm to touch while basking in the sun, by the time we got to the release site (less than 10 mins), he was already cool enough that he didn’t just take off.
After I finished filming, I did take him a bit further in, and let him go under some dense cover, just to ensure he had time to get his bearings.
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