{"id":1081,"date":"2023-05-19T12:34:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T04:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2025-03-15T20:18:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T12:18:38","slug":"william-sargent-2023-05-19-spring-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/william-sargent-2023-05-19-spring-snakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Snakes in spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From our resident snake wrangler<\/p>\n<p>If there was a warning system for snake activity &#8230; it would be on red right now.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/annual\/2023\/South-Lantau-Life-2023-05-19-william-sargent-snakes-fire-danger.png\" alt=\"Spring season snake tips from resident snake wrangler William Sargent\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have had a few weeks of mild dry weather and suddenly the humidity has shot through the roof. It&#8217;s hot and sticky.<\/p>\n<p>You only need to look at how many bugs, toads, snails are flying\/jumping\/crawling around at the moment to realise that a there is a surge of activity.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; remember these simple precautions:<\/p>\n<p>\u2705\ufe0f ALWAYS use a torch at night outside.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705\ufe0f Watch where you put your hands and feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705\ufe0f Give a check before you stick your hand under a bbq cover that is kept outside.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705\ufe0f Look in the kids&#8217; outdoor play house, look behind a plant pot before moving it etc, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Just build this into your normal habit like you would look in the mirror before reversing a car or checking to make sure you have your keys in hand before locking the door behind you.<\/p>\n<p>This will massively reduce your chances to a negative encounter.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simply common sense.<\/p>\n<p>Snakes are not aggressive.<\/p>\n<p>They are defensive.<\/p>\n<p>They will only ever bite if they feel threatened.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, William Sargent.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/annual\/2023\/South-Lantau-Life-2023-05-19-william-sargent-snakes-beach-cobra-kinzie-hk-snakes.png\" alt=\"Spring season snake tips from resident snake wrangler William Sargent\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/annual\/2023\/South-Lantau-Life-2023-05-19-william-sargent-snakes-beach-cobra-kinzie-memory.png\" alt=\"Spring season snake tips from resident snake wrangler William Sargent\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1313\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong Snakes Safari<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snakes are not aggressive. They are defensive. They will only ever bite if they feel threatened<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}