• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

Interesting Photos and Story

wade

wade

Save The Humans
My son sent me these pictures. All I know is what the story says.

This has to be the weirdest thing that ever floated by me on the Snake River. They were stuck together in death lock, each wanting to kill the other first. My guess is that the falcon snatched up the tasty snake, and it somehow got its tail around the falcon's neck, strangling it in midair causing both of them to crash into the river. They are both alive and well, considering. I think a few more minutes and the snake would have won. The tail was actually tied in a knot around the neck, and getting tighter by the second. I got the snake untied, and well, as you can see, they both made it. This is another one of those stories you tell, and are always acknowledged with "yeah, right!" Well, here's the proof. Neither of them bit me or scratched me; the snake didn't want to stop biting the falcon's leg, and only let go after I had untied everything else. I got the water out of the falcon's lungs with birdie inversion technique, and stayed with him until he was almost dried off in the sun, and flying a little. Ball of snake and falcon, that is the weirdest thing I have pulled out of the water so far, it beats the wagon wheel!
 

Attachments

  • 001 (Small).jpg
    001 (Small).jpg
    62.8 KB · Views: 134
  • 002 (Small).jpg
    002 (Small).jpg
    96.4 KB · Views: 134
  • 003 (Small).jpg
    003 (Small).jpg
    72.5 KB · Views: 133
  • 004 (Small).jpg
    004 (Small).jpg
    83.5 KB · Views: 133
  • 005 (Small).jpg
    005 (Small).jpg
    83.8 KB · Views: 135
Two more pics.
 

Attachments

  • 006 (Small).jpg
    006 (Small).jpg
    61.3 KB · Views: 134
  • 007 (Small).jpg
    007 (Small).jpg
    65.1 KB · Views: 133
One of those see it to believe it. WOW I'm now a believer, cool story wade and REALLY cool back up pics. Once in a life time viewing.
 
Very cool pics and incident, thanks for sharing them. That is how one of the LA Pines came to be in the Memphis Zoo original breeding program, farmers were talking and hear a big comotion nearby and when they got there a Hawk had a LA Pine or the Pine had the Hawk, they were all tangled up with one another.

Thanks again.

dc
 
I hope the falcon will be ok. Birds stress out so easy! That snake sure had more than a tiger by the tail there! Glad you were able to take pics. What a wonderful thing to do!!! Huge thumbs up from me about that!!! Amazing!!!
 
Great story and photos! I just hope that immature red-tailed hawk has learned it's lesson when it comes to hunting snakes!
 
I have seen this happen before in the field. An adult red-tail was digging around a wood pile with its legs and all of a sudden this huge black rat came lunging out and grabbed onto the hawk and immediately started constricting it. Its pretty amazing stuff! It happens for sure and its pretty cool to get to witness such events! Amazing photos!
 
Wow! Awesome Pics!
And since nobody has asked, and I am sure somebody has an answer: What kind of snake is that?
 
Cool story and pics!
Think it's some kind of Pine or gopher snake? Would be my guess but I'm not good with IDing the subspecies of those.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top