mother nature is sometimes mean

I heard a frog croaking whilst gardening, and followed the sound until I found this!

These things happen. The snake has to eat.

Great photo!

Thank you Equilibrium. I had to take alot of pics to get a good shot! It took at least 10 minutes for the snake to swallow the frog and it croaked all the way down!

I'm not as good with a camera as you are. I am also somewhat weak hearted and probably would have left after taking the first photo. I don't know that I could have stomached the croaking all the way down although I do understand that you are from Australia and both of the species in the photo are native species and this is a totally natural process. It's still somewhat disturbing to me although no where in the league of watching some National Geographic specials. I used to stop watching some of their programming because it was too graphic for me.

I hope you post more photos. I had my kids take a look at yours because they were sooooooooo good.

Oh you flatterer you! Thank you very much. Its raining here at the moment,so no chance to get out and photograph things, although there was the tiniest frog on the sliding glass door last night! We haven;t seen a frog all season, so I guess the rain and the slight rise in temperature is bringing them all out of hibernation.
The snake was only about 2 & 1/2 - 3 foot long, a tree smake (harmless) and I have a built in zoom on my camera so I wasn't really closer than say 3 foot myself! Snakes creep me out a bit!

I don't know if you realize how few people get shots like what you were able to post here. There was another man recently who did and he posted his photos. I don't think I've seen any photos other than yours or his so they really are great photos.

We're getting rain around here also. We needed it so bad. I found a salamander under a board that I was going to toss and decided to leave the the board where it was until he was ready to move on his own. I can always toss the board out later. Fall is around the corner and he's going to have to seek out a better place to sleep. I have four frogs in a water feature outside becuse of all the rain. I'm going to have to move those to deeper water too this fall. Seems as if when we get a decent amount of rain that we start seeing all kinds of critters.

I'm leaving tonight for vacation and won't be back until early September. If you post any more good pics, please don't think I'm ignoring you.

I'm not sue when your "Tonight" is in my time, but heres a "Blue tongue" or "shingle back" lizard. I'm not sure which one it is. (can't see its tongue) They eat snails and things and are very good to have in the garden. It belongs to the same garden as the above snake. I photographed it today as it was trying to get what little solar energy it could on such a miserable day. Its about a foot or so long
We are coming into Spring, but I think my spring flower display is going to be a fizzer as the flowers got smashed in the rain and wind! Oh well, good excuse to buy/grow some more. Hmmmm, think I'll go shopping tomorrow!