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05-10-2013, 09:55 AM | #1 |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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| Snake vs Thrushes I was pouring my coffee and looking out the kitchen window a few minutes ago when I saw two Woodland Thrush birds fighting with something. It was a huge black snake! The snake looked like a cobra as he tried to strike at the birds. They fought for a few minutes until the snake slithered into the vinca under my deck. I have never seen small birds go after a snake, only hawks. Now I'm going to worry about that snake, harmless though he may be.
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05-10-2013, 10:01 AM | #2 |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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| Also is that the proper plural of thrush? Or is it thrushai, or simply thrush. I'm never cleaning out the vinca again, or any other plant in the yard. Eeek!
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05-10-2013, 10:44 AM | #3 | |
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05-10-2013, 11:39 AM | #4 | |
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Rats scare me to death. I have encountered big ones walking around on the sidewalks of DC and Chicago. Although the black snakes here are harmless, they still make me jump. I was picking up sticks in one of our stand of trees in the yard once when one of the big sticks started slithering. Of course, I screamed and ran like an idiot.
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05-10-2013, 11:49 AM | #5 | |
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05-10-2013, 12:05 PM | #6 | |
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05-10-2013, 12:23 PM | #7 |
I ♥ Joey & Ralphie! Donating Member | We had rattle snakes in CA, and I never encountered one until I killed a nonpoisonous king snake. It was HUGE and in my outside entryway and I didn’t know it was nonpoisonous. I had two young children, and I did a Jodi Arias on it. A few months later I found a rattlesnake curled up under the car. I let my husband kill that one.
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05-10-2013, 01:14 PM | #8 | |
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I checked my video camera and found that I managed to capture one still shot of the snake and birds . . . although I failed to get the video. black snake.jpg black snake 2.jpg
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05-10-2013, 01:17 PM | #9 |
I ♥ Joey & Ralphie! Donating Member | How neat is that, I wonder how the birds know the snake isn't poisonous? Very brave birds you have.
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05-10-2013, 01:24 PM | #10 |
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| Dad thinks the snake was trying to get into the birds' nest in our holly shrubs.
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05-10-2013, 01:52 PM | #11 |
I ♥ Joey & Ralphie! Donating Member | Oh, protecting their young, that's different, you do become very brave when trying to protect your babies!
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05-10-2013, 03:16 PM | #12 |
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| Kirsten... that's a small snake...
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05-10-2013, 03:42 PM | #13 |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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| Shhh! Just play along like you are impressed with the giant predator in my yard.
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05-10-2013, 04:58 PM | #14 | |
I♥PeekTinkySaph&Finny Donating Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Baltimore, Maryland
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| Oooops! Quote:
Had one that size last spring climbing a tree to reach a robin's nest. The birds were on the roof of my shed pitching a fit. I went to see what all the noise was about, then grabbed a rake and got the snake down. Sadly a storm hit the following week and I found 2 baby birds dead on the ground.
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