Terrey Hills Snake Catcher

Service Locations

1 June

If there's a snake at your home, garage, shed, or property in Terrey Hills, 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 Terrey Hills

Terrey Hills sits on the plateau between Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park to the north and Garigal National Park to the south, with the bushland of both parks running right up to the suburb's residential streets. The suburb has a distinctive character — large acreage blocks, horse properties, equestrian centres, the Belrose-Terrey Hills commercial strip along Mona Vale Road, and the wildlife corridor that runs through Duffys Forest into the surrounding national parks. The combination of bushland on all sides, sandstone country, and large properties with sheds, paddocks and dams makes Terrey Hills one of the most reptile-active suburbs in the entire Sydney metropolitan area.

**Diamond Pythons, like this one, are probably the most common species we find in Terrey Hills**

What we see in Terrey Hills

Diamond pythons are the signature species. The Ku-ring-gai Chase and Garigal connections sustain a substantial resident python population, and Terrey Hills' acreage properties with mature trees, sheds, stables and roof spaces deliver consistent python callouts year-round. Roof cavity jobs are a major category.

Red-bellied black snakes work the gullies, the seasonal creek lines, and properties with pools, dams or thick damp garden beds. Consistent through summer, particularly after rain.

Eastern brown snakes appear on the drier acreage blocks, around stables and sheds where rodent activity is highest, and along the cleared paddock 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 Terrey Hills — the bushland corridors deliver them through yards, paddocks, sheds and occasionally into roof spaces. Not snakes, but a common callout.

Blue-tongued lizards and Eastern water dragons are part of the 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 Terrey Hills properties

The hiding spots reflect the acreage character: roof cavities, eaves and rafters for pythons, inside stables and feed sheds, behind hay bales, around water troughs and dam edges, under decking, behind hot water systems, in tack rooms, along sandstone walls, in shaded garden beds, behind machinery, and through the gaps between the house and the 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 or feed bowls left outside overnight. No snake repellent sprays, no gimmicks. Just the things that actually work.