On Thursday, the warmer weather led to the emergence of the first monitored brown snake in Canberra, who was observed basking outside her burrow.
FloJo the snake came out of a little under four months of brumation - the cold-blooded version of hibernation - to soak in the warm sun for two hours.
ANU snake conservationist Dr Gavin Smith called the sight a "meditation".
"As I have developed a great affinity with this shy, cautious and graceful native snake, it was very exciting to see her familiar profile," he said.
"Snakes are ... acutely sensitive and behaviourally attuned to the environments in which they live.
"There has been some mild winter days recently and ambient temperatures hitting 15 to 16 Celsius, so it doesn't surprise me that our local population of reptiles have responded accordingly."
FloJo had an hour more than most Canberrans to enjoy this weekend's sunny weather, with temperatures this August a degree warmer than usual.
The Bureau of Meteorology's David Wilke said a high pressure system moving over from inland Australia was causing warmer weather.
"It doesn't look like a whole lot of rain over the next seven days, [with] temperatures generally above average during the daytime, and hopefully some reasonably sunny days," the meteorologist said.
He said to expect a windy Monday as a cold front moved over from south of the continent, but said frosty mornings would give way to well-tempered days.
Some showers are predicted, but they are likely to miss Canberra and instead hit the western parts of the territory.
He also said, if the city came out of lockdown this week, residents may be welcomed with a sunny 18-degree day on Saturday.
Although Australia won't enter Spring until September, some have noticed a greater presence of animals as the weather gets warmer.
Mr Wilke said that could be because the four season calendar was a northern hemisphere definition, and didn't necessary line up with Canberra weather.
"Whether or not it really applies to Australia in the same way [that it did] when that kind of concept was defined is probably debatable," he said.
While there is no Indigenous weather calendar for the ACT region, the D'harawal calendar extends from Sydney Harbour to Shoalhaven river.
According to this weather system, the Wiritjiribin season corresponds generally with August.
This is when cold and windy weather slowly gives way to gentle spring rains.
“Emergence.”
— Gavin Smith (@gavin_jd_smith) August 14, 2021
This is my fav footage of FloJo, an Eastern brown snake who we’ve been tracking for over 6 months, exiting her hibernaculum for a 2-hour sun bask yesterday. We know the phrase poetry in motion, but maybe ‘snake in motion’ fits better for a Sunday meditation? #WildOzpic.twitter.com/8cjhMKVCJ3
Ecologist Dr Smith said the appearance of local reptiles was a good indicator of seasonal change in the bush capital.
However, his snake tracking project is still to determining whether being active in August is normal for Canberra snakes.
"We are finding that there are certainly degrees of variance in movement behaviours between our tracked snakes, as well as between species of snake more generally," he said.
"It is therefore tricky making generalisations about them as a collective."
