Snake Eating (Not for Squimish)

ZanottiZanotti Registered Users Posts: 1,411 Major grins
edited October 4, 2008 in Wildlife
Was about to cut the grass today and saw this guy with a big meal. Its probably his last for the season. He wouldn't let me disturb him - its getting cold here and my guess is that he cannot move very fast in 59 degree weather.

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  • stevehappstevehapp Registered Users Posts: 635 Major grins
    edited October 2, 2008
    yewww, slimy... :D

    what is he eating, a frog or lizard??
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  • GaleGale Registered Users Posts: 1,052 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2008
    wow
    guess i would forget the yard mowing....
    what in the world is it eating
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  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2008
    Looks like it might be eating a sizable leopard frog!

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  • ZanottiZanotti Registered Users Posts: 1,411 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2008
    I wasnt getting all that close, but my guess is a toad.
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  • stevehappstevehapp Registered Users Posts: 635 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2008
    Zanotti wrote:
    I wasnt getting all that close, but my guess is a toad.

    yeah, that is what I was thinking.. eek7.gif
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  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2008
    stevehapp wrote:
    yeah, that is what I was thinking.. eek7.gif
    Come on now. With the snake that busy one could walk right up to it and probably pick it up, too.

    A snake with its mouth not engaged like that would probably just slither away if you appoached it. And quicker than you running away.

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  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2008
    Good behavioral image. While I was down in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, the guide I was with at the photography ranch I was visiting showed me her pics of a rattlesnake eating a rabbit that she had photographed. She got so close she could have taken macros of the rattlesnake because it was so engaged in eating that it was helpless to defend itself or move. When a snake is eating they are quite vulnerable.
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