Video of red-bellied black snake on Urunga beach as breeding season starts

Males with a one track mind are out and about as spring heralds breeding season.

It was a shock for beach goers to see a red-bellied black snake racing across the sand at Urunga recently, but the species is not averse to the beach.

They seek out moist conditions and are even known to eat fish, tadpoles and frogs.

The snake was filmed making its way along the sand and up towards the Surf Life Saving Club tower at Hungry Head Beach.

A Red-bellied black snake. (AAP Image / Angelo Velardo)

During the spring breeding season males actively search for females and consequently spend more time in the open and travel further.

So over the next few weeks males will be shaking off the dust and heading off on a mission to find and fight for a mate.

As experts explain, snakes spend 95 per cent of their life trying to get food and not become food, so they are sly and stealthy.

But as breeding season starts that common sense will go out the window and males with a one track mind will travel to find a mate, day and night and out in the open.

Males are sometimes seen entwined in combat - preoccupied and totally oblivious to their surroundings - as they fight over a female.