It shows perfectly what it is though 
Backyard wildlife
-
Lisbeth
- Site Admin
- Posts: 65643
- Joined: Sat May 19, 2012 12:31 pm
- Country: Switzerland
- Location: Lugano
- Contact:
Re: Backyard wildlife
Hey Okie! You must be quicker next time It shows perfectly what it is though
It shows perfectly what it is though "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Mandela
The desire for equality must never exceed the demands of knowledge
The desire for equality must never exceed the demands of knowledge
Back from the Cape are you 
-
100ponder
- Posts: 409
- Joined: Wed Mar 19, 2014 12:11 pm
- Country: RSA
- Location: Amanzimtoti, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
- Contact:
Re: Backyard wildlife
An approx 400 mm long brown house snake visited our small bird restaurant in our backyard and caught a masked weaver chick who accompanied his father to the restaurant. The chick use to sit around making a big noise until his father would feed him.
In the process the snake must have been laying in ambush in the nearside bromelia plants and when the opportunity presented it self - zap ! Coils around the prey and squeeze like hell ! [Yes, house snakes are constrictors and not poisonous at all.]
The snake was afterwards mobbed by the weaver dad, 5 or six fire finch males and a Magpie Mannikin. Pathetically the weaver male, very desperate to help his chick went off, caught a grasshopper and returned to the murder scene to present the grasshopper to the unfortunate victim but eventually did not have guts to go near the snake.
As it was, nature went its way . . . .
Gerrie & Lettie.
In the process the snake must have been laying in ambush in the nearside bromelia plants and when the opportunity presented it self - zap ! Coils around the prey and squeeze like hell ! [Yes, house snakes are constrictors and not poisonous at all.]
The snake was afterwards mobbed by the weaver dad, 5 or six fire finch males and a Magpie Mannikin. Pathetically the weaver male, very desperate to help his chick went off, caught a grasshopper and returned to the murder scene to present the grasshopper to the unfortunate victim but eventually did not have guts to go near the snake.
As it was, nature went its way . . . .
Gerrie & Lettie.
-
Lisbeth
- Site Admin
- Posts: 65643
- Joined: Sat May 19, 2012 12:31 pm
- Country: Switzerland
- Location: Lugano
- Contact:
Re: Backyard wildlife
Poor dad, but also snakes must survive 
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Mandela
The desire for equality must never exceed the demands of knowledge
The desire for equality must never exceed the demands of knowledge
