Snakehunts at Buloh

Snake-hunting is something that I've always wanted to do, after hearing the Wildfilms veterans go on and on for countless times about how fun and exciting it is. So when I saw the email requesting for volunteers, I jumped on the chance!

Buloh around and after sunset presented a fascinating glimpse of the tremendous diversity of wildlife it supports. Over a few trips, we saw Atlas Moths, some really funky spiders, the family of otters, a crocodile, lots of snails and birds, and of course the target actively sought - dog-faced water snakes that popped out of seemingly nowhere at that certain point in time just as the final rays of the setting sun slipped beneath the horizon.

In between taking regular temperature readings of the air and the pools and streams, collecting water samples and catching fish, we spotted and bagged snakes of all description doing all sorts of things.

Big snakes and little snakes...


Resting snakes...


Snakes swimming in tandem...


Snakes feeding...


(close up)


Snacks for snakes.

We even bumped into a kind of old Wildthing which we'd thought had gone extinct, here shown bagging the snakes carefully - to be taken back to the lab for measurements and tagging before release.