Snake Catcher Chatswood

Service Locations

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If you need a snake catcher in Chatswood, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474. Urban Reptile Removal attends Chatswood every day of the year — usually on site within 30 minutes.

Stay calm and keep your distance. Move children and pets clear of the area, but keep your eyes on the snake from a safe spot. The most useful thing you can do before we arrive is maintain visual contact — a snake that's been watched is far easier to find. You don't need to take a photo or identify the species — just watch where it goes.

About Chatswood

Chatswood sits at the centre of the Lower North Shore — a major commercial precinct surrounded by established residential streets, with the bushland of Lane Cove National Park to the west, Castle Cove and Castlecrag to the north, and the Garigal corridor running through the upper reaches. The character is mixed: a high-density commercial and retail core, surrounding mid-density residential, and the older established streets on the eastern and northern edges sitting on substantial blocks with mature canopy. Snake activity concentrates in the eastern and northern bushland-edge streets, where diamond pythons and red-bellies move through the reserve corridors and into the older properties

**Golden Crowned Snakes, like this one, are one of the most common snakes we find in Chatswood**

What we see in Chatswood

Diamond pythons are the most common snake we attend. The bushland connections to Lane Cove National Park, Castle Cove and the Garigal corridor sustain a resident population that moves into the older roof cavities of the established residential streets, particularly on the eastern and northern edges. Roof cavity callouts run year-round.

Red-bellied black snakes work the damp gullies, the creek drainage running down into the river and harbour systems, and properties with pools, ponds or thick shaded garden beds. Consistent through summer.

Eastern brown snakes are uncommon — the bushland-and-residential character doesn't suit them. Occasional sightings on the drier blocks.

Golden-crowned snakes turn up in the sandstone country and shaded leaf-litter gardens after summer rain. Venomous but their bite is medically minor.

Lace monitors appear from the bushland reserves in summer, particularly on properties backing onto Lane Cove National Park or the Castle Cove reserves.

Blue-tongued lizards and Eastern water dragons are part of Chatswood's everyday backyard wildlife. Many of the snake calls we attend turn out to be one of these — never an issue, always happy to attend and confirm.

Where snakes go on Chatswood properties

The hiding spots reflect the mixed character: roof cavities and eaves for pythons in the older housing stock, under decking and pergolas, behind hot water systems, around pool pumps and filtration boxes, in thick damp garden beds, along sandstone retaining walls, under garden edging, behind air-conditioning units, in strata complex grounds, in garages and storage areas, and through the gaps between the house and the back reserve boundary. We work through them methodically once we arrive.

After we leave…

Every Urban Reptile Removal job ends with a brief walk-through of the property. We tell you why the snake was likely there, what's drawing it in, and what you can change to reduce future activity — short grass, no clutter along the fence line, stored items lifted off the ground, gaps sealed where rodents travel, and no pet food bowls left outside overnight. No snake repellent sprays, no gimmicks. Just the things that actually work.

Call Urban Reptile Removal — Snake Catcher Chatswood

For a snake catcher in Chatswood, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474. Snake in the roof, snake in the yard, snake in the strata grounds, snake by the pool — every day of the year. Urban Reptile Removal.

About Chris Williams

Urban Reptile Removal is run by Chris Williams, a professional snake catcher and herpetologist with 35 years of experience across the Greater Sydney region. Chris has worked at Taronga Zoo and the Australian Reptile Park, founded Snake Ranch (Australia's largest reptile breeding facility), and has published seven books on Australian reptiles. He has been President of the Australian Herpetological Society since 2014. He licences and trains the catchers who attend jobs across the Urban Reptile Removal network. If you're calling Urban Reptile Removal, you're calling people who know what they're doing.