Snake Catcher Hornsby Heights

Service Locations

2 June

If you need a snake catcher in Hornsby Heights, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474. Urban Reptile Removal covers Hornsby Heights year-round, seven days a week — 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 Hornsby Heights

Hornsby Heights sits on the elevated ridge north-west of Hornsby, with Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park forming the western and northern boundaries and the Berowra Valley National Park corridor running through the western edge. The character is established Hornsby Shire residential — substantial blocks, mature canopy, sandstone outcrops, deep gullies, and a layout where almost every property sits on or near a bushland boundary. The combination of two national parks on multiple sides, the older established housing stock with mature roof spaces, and the deep gully country produces one of the most consistent diamond python suburbs in the Hornsby Shire.

The bushland connections are the dominant influence on snake activity. The Ku-ring-gai Chase corridor delivers diamond pythons through the older roof spaces year after year, and the damp gully systems running down from the ridge sustain a steady red-belly presence on properties with pools, ponds and frog-friendly gardens.

**Diamond Pythons,like this one, are one of the most common snakes we find around Hornsby Heights**

What we see in Hornsby Heights

Diamond pythons are the signature species. The Ku-ring-gai Chase and Berowra Valley National Park connections sustain a substantial resident python population. Roof cavity callouts run year-round, with the busiest period through the warmer months. Pergolas, garages, pool sheds and the rafters of larger outbuildings are also regular hiding spots.

Red-bellied black snakes work the damp gullies, the creek lines running down from the ridge, 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 appear occasionally on the drier ridge blocks and the cleared property margins. Less common than red-bellies and pythons, but present.

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 are a regular feature in Hornsby Heights — the surrounding national park bushland delivers them through yards, sheds and occasionally into roof spaces. A consistent callout through the warmer months.

Blue-tongued lizards and Eastern water dragons are part of Hornsby Heights' everyday 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 Hornsby Heights properties

The hiding spots reflect the bushland-edge character: roof cavities and eaves 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, in garages and storage areas, and through the gaps between the house and the back national park 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 Hornsby Heights

For a snake catcher in Hornsby Heights, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474. Snake in the roof, snake in the yard, snake by the pool, snake on the bushland edge. Urban Reptile Removal — seven days a week, year-round.

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.