Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily Butterflies Page 54, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
PHOTO NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!!!

Drove out to the ranch to look around for caterpillars and butterflies and ended up seeing this!!!

You can see the tail end of the indigo snake and part of the rattlesnake behind it.

I think the indigo snake was envisioning 'rattlesnake tastes like chicken' dinner but when I drove by I must've scared it. I was still able to get one photograph of the indigo moving away and the rattler it was after. I sat there for about five minutes hoping the indigo would come back to kill the rattler so I could take more photos but it never did. I thought the rattler was dead but it must've been trying to fake out the indigo because it started to move after about five minutes. Sorry folks...I killed it. I don't want any poisonous snake crawling around the places that I'm go butterflying. It was 6 feet 2 inches in length...eeeeeeeeeeeek!!!

The indigo was bigger - probably closer to 7 feet in length. Just look at how thick the back end showing is and image the first half of the snake :o)

~ Cat


This message was edited Nov 29, 2008 8:19 PM