Snake eating chicken egg
Jun 2, 2015 15:49:28 #
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Jun 2, 2015 15:58:09 #
angela k wrote:
Nice of you to share this photo and your egg!!
Great capture!!
:-D
Great capture!!
:-D
Thought I may as well get something out of it. Thanks, Angela! :thumbup:
Jun 2, 2015 16:01:46 #
Tedge wrote:
Thought I may as well get something out of it. Thanks, Angela! :thumbup:
Good trade!!
:thumbup:
Jun 2, 2015 16:04:10 #
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Jun 2, 2015 16:42:13 #
Nice Black Rat Snake. Handy little buggers to have around for rodents. At the cost of an egg once in awile it still saves on traps and poisons, and a lot safer too.
Jun 2, 2015 16:52:38 #
Jun 2, 2015 16:54:46 #
Didereaux wrote:
Nice Black Rat Snake. Handy little buggers to have around for rodents. At the cost of an egg once in awile it still saves on traps and poisons, and a lot safer too.
So true, Didereaux! Used to have a few rats and mice that would eat the chicken feed all the time. They are now gone. and it's worth an egg or two now and then.
Jun 2, 2015 18:48:52 #
Tedge wrote:
I don't need ALL the eggs!
very nice closeup with great detail. I like both images.
Jun 2, 2015 18:58:05 #
Jun 2, 2015 19:03:52 #
ebrunner wrote:
very nice closeup with great detail. I like both images.
Thank you, Erich!
Jun 2, 2015 19:04:21 #
Jun 2, 2015 22:08:59 #
Wonderful you had a camera to catch an unusual event. Made me think about why you'd be in this situation which then too made me think of a famous metaphor from Uncle Abe ....
If I saw a venomous snake crawling in the road, any man would say I might seize the nearest stick and kill it; but if I found that snake in bed with my children, that would be another question. I might hurt the children more than the snake, and it might bite them. Much more if I found it in bed with my neighbor's children, and I had bound myself by a solemn compact not to meddle with his children under any circumstances, it would become me to let that particular mode of getting rid of the gentleman alone. But if there was a bed newly made up, to which the children were to be taken, and it was proposed to take a batch of young snakes and put them there with them, I take it no man would say there was any question how I ought to decide!
If I saw a venomous snake crawling in the road, any man would say I might seize the nearest stick and kill it; but if I found that snake in bed with my children, that would be another question. I might hurt the children more than the snake, and it might bite them. Much more if I found it in bed with my neighbor's children, and I had bound myself by a solemn compact not to meddle with his children under any circumstances, it would become me to let that particular mode of getting rid of the gentleman alone. But if there was a bed newly made up, to which the children were to be taken, and it was proposed to take a batch of young snakes and put them there with them, I take it no man would say there was any question how I ought to decide!
Jun 3, 2015 06:54:15 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Wonderful you had a camera to catch an unusual eve... (show quote)
I usually keep my camera on the golf cart when I ride to the farm to check on things. But it always has the 55-300mm lens on it, so I had to ride back home and get the 18-200mm to get a better pic. I knew it would take him some time to get the egg down.
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