Snake Catcher Frenchs Forest
If there's a snake at your home, garage, shed, or property in Frenchs Forest, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474.
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 Frenchs Forest
Frenchs Forest sits in the Northern Beaches Council, surrounded on three sides by Garigal National Park, with the Manly Creek and Carroll Creek catchments running through the suburb and the connecting bushland corridors of Bantry Bay, Davidson Park and the Forestville Reserve threading directly into the residential streets. The suburb is named for the forest that still defines it — large established blocks, mature eucalypts, sandstone outcrops, deep gullies and the heaviest tree canopy of any Northern Beaches suburb. The new Northern Beaches Hospital precinct sits along the eastern edge. That combination produces one of the strongest diamond python populations in metropolitan Sydney.
What we see in Frenchs Forest
Diamond pythons are the signature call here. The Garigal corridor and the mature roof cavities of the older 1960s and 70s housing stock sustain a substantial resident python population. Roof cavity callouts are a year-round category. Non-venomous, no threat to people, but they need proper removal when they turn up in living areas.
Red-bellied black snakes work the damp gullies, the Manly Creek corridor, and properties with pools, ponds or thick shaded garden beds. Consistent through summer, particularly after rain when frog activity peaks in the gully drainage.
Eastern brown snakes are uncommon in Frenchs Forest itself — the bushland character doesn't suit them as well as the open country further west. They appear occasionally on the drier ridge 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 in summer, especially on properties backing onto Garigal. Not snakes, but a regular callout — they wander through yards, sheds and occasionally into roof spaces.
Blue-tongued lizards and Eastern water dragons are part of Frenchs Forest'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 Frenchs Forest properties
The hiding spots reflect the suburb's character: roof cavities, eaves and rafters for pythons, 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, beneath outdoor furniture, and through the gaps between the house and the back bushland 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
For snake catcher services in Frenchs Forest, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474. Every day of the year.
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.
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