Natal Green Snake
Philothamnus natalensis
Harmless
If there is a snake in front of you right now
Move away and take children and pets with you. Do not try to catch or kill it. Then call a snake remover. That is the right response for every snake, harmless or not, so there is no need to identify it first.
🔍 Enlarge How to recognise it
Uniform bright green with no spots, slimmer than a boomslang and with a much smaller eye.
Another harmless green garden snake, often confused with the Spotted Bush Snake and, less fairly, with a boomslang. Eats frogs and lizards. Common in gardens with dense cover and a pond.
Seen in Manor Gardens
Nobody has logged a Natal Green Snake here yet. If you spot one, you will be the first on the record.