Blacktown and North-West Sydney · Licensed snake removal
Snake catcher in Riverstone: from town blocks to rural gates
Riverstone brings older rural properties, established streets and growth-area building sites into the same suburb. If a snake is on your property, the safest first step is to keep people and animals away and note the last place you saw it—without trying to identify, corner or catch it.
Call Snakes in the City · 0411 103 488
NSW wildlife licence MWL000102655. A suspected bite is a medical emergency: call 000 first.
Make the location useful without going closer
When you call, give the exact address, a safe callback number and the last-known position. Riverstone’s mix of property types changes what useful access information looks like:
Acreage, stables and sheds
Name the gate and driveway, then the specific shed, yard or paddock. Keep horses, dogs and people out of that area. Leave feed bags, hay, stacked material and doors alone if reaching them takes you toward the snake.
Townhouses and established homes
Describe whether it was in a garage, courtyard, garden bed or shared boundary. Close an interior door only if you can do so from a safe side. Do not ask neighbours to search adjoining yards.
New lots and active works
Give a lot number or nearby landmark if the street is not yet easy to find on maps. Pause work in the affected section, leave machinery still and tell the catcher about temporary fencing, excavations or pipe stacks near the last sighting.
For a snake beside a road, reserve or other public land, stay out of traffic and long grass. A landmark or map pin helps you tell the relevant land manager where it was; do not treat public land as your own access route.
For a property in Schofields, use its home and building-site snake-removal guide; for a Marsden Park warehouse or construction-site sighting, see the local access checklist. Give Riverstone as the suburb only for a Riverstone address, together with the registered street, lot or gate. Nearby development does not establish where an individual snake came from.
Why Riverstone needs more than one property checklist
Blacktown City Council’s Riverstone town-centre planning proposal describes the suburb’s rural heritage, established commercial streets, growth-area housing and flood-hazard mapping. That does not establish a snake sighting at any address. It does explain why a caller may describe a rural lot, an older shed or a newly landscaped street rather than one standard suburban backyard.
Creek corridors, grassland, gardens and stored materials are different kinds of cover. A tidy yard may reduce shelter and rodents, but it cannot make a property snake-proof. Keep gates accessible for a licensed catcher and avoid moving objects to find the animal yourself.
If a person or pet may have been bitten
Person: call 000 immediately. Keep the person lying still. Apply a firm pressure-immobilisation bandage over the bite and along the affected limb, then splint it if you can, following the ambulance operator’s instructions. Do not wash the bite, cut or suck it, use a tourniquet, chase the snake or drive the patient yourself. This follows NSW Health snakebite advice and its pressure-immobilisation guidance.
Public emergency department: Hawkesbury District Hospital Emergency Department, 2 Day Street, Windsor NSW 2756, operates 24 hours. Call 000 for a suspected bite; ambulance clinicians determine the right destination.
Pet: move the animal only if safe, keep it as still as possible and phone a veterinary emergency service immediately. VECA Norwest, 7/2 Capital Place, Rouse Hill NSW 2155, (02) 9129 5800, lists 24/7 emergency care and suspected snakebite. Call first to confirm the current care and transport advice.
Species information is regional, not a Riverstone sighting record
The Australian Museum’s eastern brown snake guide describes use of open and modified habitats; its red-bellied black snake guide describes wetter places. Those are regional possibilities, not a claim that either species was seen at a particular Riverstone property. Colour and a distant photo are not a safe basis for handling decisions. Treat any unidentified snake as potentially dangerous and keep well back.
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If the snake is still in view, stay at a safe distance and call 0411 103 488. If there may have been a bite, call 000 instead.
Looking for broader wildlife context? The mapped place point for Riverstone falls in square D3 of our 2025 Sydney-region observation report. A suburb can extend into neighbouring squares; this is an orientation guide, not a suburb boundary map. View square D3 around Riverstone in the observation report → Counts apply to the whole square, not each suburb listed. A suburb appearing in a square does not mean a snake was recorded in that suburb. These are public observation records, not SITC call-outs, unique snake totals or a measure of danger.Explore public snake observations around Riverstone