tropicbreeze
Active Member
This is the second time I've managed to get photos of a Slatey-grey feeding on a Cane Toad at my place. Yet people keep telling me they'll die from it. The first, a couple of years back I thought the toad was too big for the snake. I watched through the evening and the snake didn't seem to be making much headway with it. Finally went to bed. In the morning there was no sign of a dead snake or a dead toad.
This evening I saw a Slatey-grey pulling back from water with a very limp toad in its mouth. This time the toad was a little smaller in relation to the size of the snake. I went and got the camera and got back to the snake which was managing to get the toad down. Took some photos, went inside, checked the photos and then the battery went flat.
Charged the battery up but by the time I got back to the snake the toad was just a lump in the snake's belly. The snake was resting up. My light disturbed it and it finally began to move away. No sign of any distress or discomfort (in as much as I could tell from observation of its behaviour). Maybe a bit of a satisfied grin on its face, although that could have been my imagination.
Went back later but the snake had gone, there's plenty of shelter places in my garden.
This evening I saw a Slatey-grey pulling back from water with a very limp toad in its mouth. This time the toad was a little smaller in relation to the size of the snake. I went and got the camera and got back to the snake which was managing to get the toad down. Took some photos, went inside, checked the photos and then the battery went flat.
Charged the battery up but by the time I got back to the snake the toad was just a lump in the snake's belly. The snake was resting up. My light disturbed it and it finally began to move away. No sign of any distress or discomfort (in as much as I could tell from observation of its behaviour). Maybe a bit of a satisfied grin on its face, although that could have been my imagination.
Went back later but the snake had gone, there's plenty of shelter places in my garden.