[Daffynition]

While I believe this story to be true, it seems, as most emails of this type, that it has some misinformation.

The *snake* is a Texas Fox Snake or a Texas Ratsnake which are found: near the Comal River (TX).

And the bird is not a *falcon* but a young Red-tailed Hawk.

Still very cool.

[snarkytart]

Hawk better go find new dinner. Poor thing was probably hungry.

[snarkytart]

Ah he’s a young hawk, well, he will get more skill at hunting. Looks like he’s been throught the wringer all wet. lol

[Salamander]

“Seriously, don’t tread on me”

:)

[contrarian]

2 years ago I was sitting 20 feet up in an oak tree while bow hunting for deer. A large red tailed hawk landed in a tree beside me with the still alive snake in his claw. HE/she gave me the evil eye as he/she casually would lean over and take a bite out of the snake.. That same year I was again hunting when a grey squirrel spotted me sitting up in his tree. HE sat on a tree limb barking away for about 5 minutes when suddenly a large red-tail swooped down and grabbed the squirrel by the shoulders and carried him down through the woods. My first thought was “bark now blast you”.

[Lakeshark]

Methinks Darks is looking a bit frazzled from hitting on someonething he thought was cute......

Baaad snake.

[rustbucket]

We walked out our front door one evening and saw a Texas rat snake beneath a fir tree right next to our front door. Looked like an old bicycle tire. It scared the bejeebers out of my wife. I got a hoe and put it four or five inches from the snake's body and rotated the handle of the hoe quickly back and forth. The snake cautiously stuck its head around the tree and promptly struck at the hoe. Rat snakes aren't venomous, but they can be aggressive.

I moved the hoe closer to the snake, and the snake took off through our bushes. It was about five feet long although it didn't look that long when under the tree.

When I looked 15 minutes later it was back under the same tree. I faintly touched the snake with the hoe and the snake took off in the opposite direction than before. I wouldn't hurt it because I know it helps rid us of small rodents, but I would try to keep it away from our front door.

We haven't seen the snake since. We did see a baby rabbit that could easily fit in your palm in our front bushes the next morning and an adult rabbit sitting under the tree where the snake had been,

Here's the snake as we first saw it. The head and some of the snake was behind the tree.