by Southernprints » Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:09 pm
We are not situated in Cape town but right down on the Southernmost point. I really feel strongly that it was a Cape Cobra comparing it to the interlude I had last year with a very large and black one. Granted it may have been very dark brown to look almost black. I have chatted to the bush cutters in the area who enter the bush on a daily basis and they have never seen rinkhals but as one guy says it does not mean that it is not here, you just see what there is more of. Some fly boys at the OTB and Air force base also tend to agree, they come across dark brown to black Cape Cobras often, no one yet believes they have seen a rinkhals in the area. This snake hooded three times, once while trying to move it out the house and twice when it was moving out of the garden when birds were mobbing it. I am no expert by any stretch of the imagination and do not get closer than I need to, I have immense respect for snakes, but having previously mistaken Cape Cobras for mole snakes and now having been shown and explained the differences I still believe this to have been a Cape Cobra. Thanks for the feedback and education though! It is of immense help in coping with living on the doorstep of nature.