Frank2013 wrote:
First thoughts were of a skinny Boa Constrictor, as I moved up the frame they turned to hugs of a mothers arm around her nest with young bird.....yes I realize I should have that checked.
You are not as far off as you think. There are many pythons living in this area just behind my house. I had one quietly curled up underneath my bbq a couple of weeks ago, only about a metre and a half long but the birds sure didn't like it there, and neither did I. So I put on my brave Jungle Jim persona and squirted it in the face with the garden hose until it left.