Last Monday (30/06), I got an sms from an apparently petrified mother, who's younger son had found two brown snakes, with red and black tongues. She had managed to get the two snakes into a large bucket, with a 2m pole. How she managed that I did not know. But that was all the description, along with a very blurry photo, that I was going to get.
I instructed her to just put a lid over the bucket, and weigh it down with something heavy, and I would come and collect them after work.
Upon arriving, I was greeted by the whole family, and all very eager to find out what the species was, and to get them far away off the property. The story came about that the kids were plodding around the farm, and they came across these two in a marshy area behind the shed, under some rocks. one is considerably smaller than the other, and I am just taking a guess at the smaller one being male, and the larger one being female. I'll do counts and what not when I edit those photos eventually. I showed them how to identify these harmless little fellows, and the common house snake, and asked them to rather just leave them be, as they would do no harm to any human or animal on the farm. This they readily soaked up and agreed to.
These have to be the most placid snakes I have ever handled. Neither of them had tried to bite from the moment of collection till release.
Here are a few of the photos I took of them on release.
The larger, possible female...
The smaller one, possibly male...
Enjoy!