Estaba tragándose a una golondrina Atticora fascista..en época de lluvias altas
Extremely odd behavior from a Watersnake and Ribbonsnake... has anyone else observed something similar to this before? Both healthy adults with no visible injuries and both escaped rather quickly under their own power without coaxing.
I originally walked up on this pair around noon but the ribbon snake took off before I could get a picture of the odd behavior so I immediately left and came back about three hours later to find them both in the exact same position. So it’s fair to assume it’s a reoccurring arrangement between the two of them. The minimal research I have done has turned up nothing but I would love to hear from someone more knowledgeable about this sort of thing!
Eating coho milt
The boa made its body look like a branch and when the hummer (Violet Sabrewing) landed on it, it was immediately strangled. Hard to believe that the snake managed to swallow the bird with such a long beak but it figured out to bend back the head. In the fourth photo the tip of the beak can be seen flush with the body. It took 25 minutes to completely swallow it. All the while being harassed by various hummers.
Albino Eastern Worm Snake
For some reason my first picture of the red belly did not work. With several dead young.
Albino juvenile garter snake
Albino!!!!! Rescued from my parents’ swimming pool.
I’m thrown off by the redish color. Is this a common garter snake?
Asleep. Probably digesting a brushtail possum.
Chipmunk/garter snake face off!
red-tailed hawk was fighting with the snake, you can see it wrapped around the bird and on the ground below it.
Blotch pattern and coloration on snake wrapped around hawk leads me to say Milksnake.
Sighting and photos (c) surfap.
Field Notes - 5 Arafura File Snakes having a romantic moment. I counted two female and three males.
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Rescued. The swallow has been attracted by a small rodent found in the can (probably attracted itself by the Orange juice !). It was not able to retract its head from this trap, though it was able to slip its whole body inside !
A Jamaican Boa observed in a cave Swallow nest in the mouth of the cave. The swallow nest was located in a bell hole
Black King Snake eating a Garter Snake
In situ. This is the best photo I have of a proud, protective mother "Hyde County Red" Pigmy Rattlesnake and her 10 - 15 day-old young. I regularly encountered this female while searching for reptiles in an area locally called "Buzzard's Roost" (nowhere near the actual place, incidentally) about 10 miles from my home in Fairfield. The site was on private land - a seasonally-filled, 2 acre duck impoundment surrounded on 3 sides by Bald Cypress wetland, and adjacent to Lake Matta-mosquito (local joke!) NWR. This particular location had an incredibly abundant population of S. miliarius - on one day with perfect weather conditions here, I observed 14 individuals of this species of all growth stages in less than two hours! I grew especially "attached" to the female pictured, as she was reliably found in the vicinity of her "favorite" stump, and I enjoyed witnessing her feeding, frequently basking, and entertaining the attentions of a large (for this species) male in mid-Spring - involving courtship and "mate-guarding" behaviors. I was deeply saddened to revisit this site 4 years after this photo was taken, to find the entire area had been completely devastated by clear-cutting for the pulp lumber industry, right up to the Refuge boundary line - and without a Pigmy to be found, despite an intensive search on my part at a perfect time of year. Apparently, the NCFWS designation of "Special Concern" wasn't actually a "concern" at all. Clear-cutting of sensitive habitat, and roadkill mortality are the most serious issues facing the herpetofauna of North Carolina, back then, through today - and most likely into its future, as well.
Being eaten by Coluber constrictor
Observation of mobbing behaviour published at: https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/app/uploads/2017/04/sbr2016-042-045.pdf
A snake and a turtle sunning on the same rock.
This observation is for the identification of the lizard being eaten.
Orlando Wetlands Park, Orange County, FL, April 2018.
Being scavenged by a Carabid beetle. I've still never seen this species alive.
Cyanocitta cristata harassing Pantherophis alleghaniensis. Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC, USA.
There were at least half a dozen blue jays raising a ruckus high up in the trees. I had no idea what it was all about until I reviewed the pictures and saw the snake slithering through the branches. The jays must have been trying to protect nearby nests from the predator.
Five heads visible.
Kerncliff Park, Burlington, ON, Canada
This photo was taken 11 years ago. She should almost be done digesting that meal hahaha. This lacks professionalism...
Great Blue Heron: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10248122
Tantilla cucullata predating scolopendra heros
Prey of Madagascar Pygmy Kingfisher (Corythornis madagascariensis)
Expedition durch unbekanntes Gebiet auf Halmahera um den vulkan Ibu bis zur Ostküste.
Cape Cobra versus Puff Adder.
Strange specimen I discovered and collected with two metasomas.
I've kept her since May 2021 and she's still alive and well in her enclosure.
found dead
With lots of mites.
1 juvenile eating Hyla intermedia
Torrey Pines Rattle snake eating a mouse
Found this guy half levitating over a stream, and then saw the mouse close by. Watched him eat.
Eating a southern pacific rattlesnake. 9 photos. FYI: we did come back the same direction 30 minutes later and saw the same snake (full belly) on a patch of asphalt about 10 yards from where we first saw it, as if giving itself belly heat (air temps were still around 80 degrees). Due to some comments received about regurge, I also went back in the daylight the next day, and checked the area and did not find a regurged rattler. I believe the king kept it down.
Local school and its nearest surroundings