Right in the middle of winter a few years ago we found this fella sunning himself draped very cleverly over a semi-cascade deodar cedar - no cold tummy from lying on a rock or on concrete. He should have been hibernating, but from the bulge in his stomach, Sothing Had Happened (gulp!).
He's a 2m. diamond python, well known in our (semi-rural) street - the squeaks and rustlings of the bush rats would gradually increase over time, and then disappear quite quickly. He'd then move on to the next house in the street. Not sociable, but quite an institution. Ash's thread just reminded me.
Gavin
Who is sleeping on my cedar?
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Re: Who is sleeping on my cedar?
Holy crap, id love to see how big your cedar is.GavinG wrote:Right in the middle of winter a few years ago we found this fella sunning himself draped very cleverly over a semi-cascade deodar cedar - no cold tummy from lying on a rock or on concrete. He should have been hibernating, but from the bulge in his stomach, Sothing Had Happened (gulp!).
He's a 2m. diamond python, well known in our (semi-rural) street - the squeaks and rustlings of the bush rats would gradually increase over time, and then disappear quite quickly. He'd then move on to the next house in the street. Not sociable, but quite an institution. Ash's thread just reminded me.
Gavin
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Re: Who is sleeping on my cedar?
Christ 
That is just bloody fantastic 
That is just bloody fantastic “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be like water, my friend.”
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Re: Who is sleeping on my cedar?
Hey Gavin,
Make sure your tree does not get boa bite. It is after all a constrictor!
Make sure your tree does not get boa bite. It is after all a constrictor!
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Re: Who is sleeping on my cedar?
It should be applied evenly (turns of about 45degrees) and should be removed at the indication of "biting"Andrew Legg wrote:Hey Gavin,
Make sure your tree does not get boa bite. It is after all a constrictor!
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Re: Who is sleeping on my cedar?
Teach him to prune. Your Cedar needs a trim. 
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Re: Who is sleeping on my cedar?
Gerard: I apply pythons VERY VERY CAREFULLY, and they go on at whatever angle they bloody want.... Annealing them can be tricky.
Bodhi: YOU teach him. He won't listen to me.
Sadly the semi-cascade cedar decided to die back the year after, - now I have an aged base, a couple of branches that go off everywhere, and a dead bit. Not sure what will happen. It spent two years yellow and sickly, but it has decided to live now.
No pythons where I am now in the 'burbs in Canberra, unfortunately - they need the Residential Python Permit, the Rat Preservation Order Exemption Certificate, several different Slither Speed determinations in respect to gradient, texture, material and community amenity, and written permission from all residents, stakeholders, shovel-owners, bandicoots and trees within a 6.3km range. It's just too much for them, the poor little beggars can hardly read. Let alone in fill in the forms.
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Bodhi: YOU teach him. He won't listen to me.
Sadly the semi-cascade cedar decided to die back the year after, - now I have an aged base, a couple of branches that go off everywhere, and a dead bit. Not sure what will happen. It spent two years yellow and sickly, but it has decided to live now.
No pythons where I am now in the 'burbs in Canberra, unfortunately - they need the Residential Python Permit, the Rat Preservation Order Exemption Certificate, several different Slither Speed determinations in respect to gradient, texture, material and community amenity, and written permission from all residents, stakeholders, shovel-owners, bandicoots and trees within a 6.3km range. It's just too much for them, the poor little beggars can hardly read. Let alone in fill in the forms.
Gavin
