Snake Catcher Northbridge
Northbridge is one of the most reptile-active suburbs on the Lower North Shore. If you need a snake catcher in Northbridge, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474. Urban Reptile Removal attends Northbridge every day of the year.
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 Northbridge
Northbridge sits on a peninsula bordered on three sides by the bushland of Sailors Bay, Long Bay and the Middle Harbour foreshore, with the connecting reserves of Tunks Park, Northbridge Golf Course and the Flat Rock Gully corridor threading through the suburb. The character is mature, affluent residential — established Federation and Inter-war homes on substantial blocks, dense canopy, sandstone retaining walls, and a high proportion of properties either backing onto bushland reserve or sitting within a couple of streets of the harbour. That geography produces one of the strongest diamond python suburbs on the Lower North Shore, with red-bellies through the gullies and water dragons everywhere along the foreshore.
What we see in Northbridge
Diamond pythons are the signature call. The bushland connections to the harbour foreshore reserves and the mature roof cavities of the older housing stock sustain a substantial resident population. Roof cavity callouts run year-round, with the busiest period through the warmer months. Pergolas, garages, pool sheds and roof spaces are all regular hiding spots.
Red-bellied black snakes work the damp gullies, the foreshore drainage lines, and properties with pools, ponds or thick shaded garden beds. Strong activity year-round near the bushland edges, particularly after rain.
Eastern brown snakes are uncommon — the bushland-and-harbour character doesn't suit them. Occasional sightings 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 reserves in summer. A regular callout on properties backing onto Tunks Park, the golf course or the foreshore reserves.
Blue-tongued lizards and Eastern water dragons are part of Northbridge's everyday wildlife. Water dragons in particular are common along the harbour foreshore and around pools. Many of the snake calls we attend turn out to be one of these — never an issue, always happy to attend and confirm.
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Where snakes go on Northbridge properties
The hiding spots reflect the bushland-and-harbour character: roof cavities and eaves for pythons, in pool sheds and garages, 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 boat sheds and storage areas, and through the gaps between the house and the back reserve or foreshore 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 Northbridge
For a snake catcher in Northbridge, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474. Snake in the roof, snake in the pool shed, snake in the garage, snake near the foreshore — 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.
Green Tree Snakes, like this one, are one of the most common snakes encounter in Northbridge
