Topic: Dinner and a Snake

[TIOTIT]

Hi Everyone
It's good to share these images with folk who
appreciate the beauty of nature...I saw this
snake while out bush walking a couple of months
ago...a meal that size( most likley a possum) will
last for six months....the face shot is a snake that
lives around the house...still to small to eat possum
but one day watch out.....

[nichi]

Wow, looks like he'll need a long rest after that meal!

[Jennifer-]

Great pictures Tiotit! Snakes are such beautiful creatures, I must admit I think it would take me a great deal of getting used to the size of them there! Wow! The only snakes here in Maine are small garden snakes, the largest one Ive ever seen was perhaps 3 feet long (if that) and harmless.

I can remember as a child always hanging tight to the reptiles when visiting a zoo.. my mother hated it. 

Do you have domestic cats? Looks like they would have to be pretty sneaky to survive your territory.

Thanks for sharing, Raven

[tommy2]

Raven, one of my near-misses was with a snake.  Luckily it was early morn and we were both still just waking up!

That was a copperhead.    I had a black snake, though, who lived in my workshop outside.  No mice to be found!  It was a good omen, for sure.

Those Virginia forest days!  Such fond memories.

Back at you later, Dear. tom

[Taimi]

snakes are super cool! 
we only have tiny ones here.

[erik]

Good shots!

[Jennifer-]

Raven, one of my near-misses was with a snake.  Luckily it was early morn and we were both still just waking up!

That was a copperhead.    I had a black snake, though, who lived in my workshop outside.  No mice to be found!  It was a good omen, for sure.

Those Virginia forest days!  Such fond memories.

Back at you later, Dear. tom

I think Ill stick to my native woodland.. *smiles... those sweet little garden snakes are getting better and better by the moment!

I used to have a ermine (small white weasel) hanging around one of my houses, I never could figure out how he'd get in, I suspect near the plumbing in the bathroom somehow. No mice that summer. Naturally I couldnt help myself and started feeding the little one pcs of raw meat and we became friends.

Glad you woke up just a tad swifter then that Copperhead Tom!

  Raven