Snake ball

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I just came in from my garage where I found a black and ivory colored garden snake in a tight ball.  I thought it was dead until a stepped a bit closer and saw some movement.  It's been hotter than hell and I got a small dab of water and poured it on the floor by the snake.  After about fifteen seconds the ball started to unwind and turned out to be a 20 inch snake....with 8 inches of a red and black garden snake sticking out of its mouth....and still wiggling.

 

I left them to the ways of Mothers Nature's  critters and I'll go check in a bit to see what happened.

 

I've seen a lot of wondrous things before but never this

[Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428]

walked up on a red coachwhip that was maybe 3 or 3 1/2 feet long working on swallowing a big alligator lizard in my driveway a while back.  Them things are fast, I couldn't get my phone out quick enough to snap off a shot before it was away into the field next door.

[WOLFY]

might’ve been a small king snake

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Gone.  I went back out after an hour and found a damp spot but no snakes.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Did some more checking and found big snake is a variety of king snake, small snake is a milk snake.  It also occurred to me the small snake was about 3/4 the size of the big snake.  That begs the question of how big a snake's stomach is.