"why you called an snake season"? (jams 002)

I am not the creator of this thread nor of course the heading "Snake Season" but I hope it is appropriate for me to respond to the question asked by 'jams002'. I've got nothing better to do. "Snake Season" is a just a term often used to describe the time of the year when snakes are more active and therefore more likely to come in contact with, for example, humans and "heaven forbid", greyhounds. In climates where there is a very distinct temperature difference between summer and winter (a very large part of Australia), snakes are much less active, even hybernating during the colder months. Come the warmer months they are on the move again, seeking food and water or just a nice warm place to sun themselves (part of regulating their body temperature). "Snake Season" is when we (and greyhounds) are more likely to have a "close encounter" with a snake. In the colder months, we would tend to have to go looking for them or unwittingly, disturb one. My brother has a cattle property in Queensland (150 kms inland). During the winter of 2007he unwittingly disturbed a King Brown who was sheltering in an old car tyre, used as border around a shrub. It was winter but it was Queensland (warmer climate) and the King Brown was not very happy and still sufficiently active to infict some damage. My brother was lucky he did not get bitten. I hope this is helpful.