A couple of months ago, we woke up one morning to find a well-nourished visitor outside our bathroom window. His/her? jaws were still a bit loose from the almighty stretching they must have been given the night before.
Carpet snake after a big meal
Carpet snakes are reasonably common around here. Local legend has it that there used to be a 20 foot long one, a foot wide, that showed itself occasionally. I suspect it may have grown in the telling (!), but I know at least one woman who was quite convincing when she told me she feared for her small children at the time.
Slack-jawed carpet snake
We’ve only seen small ones, like this one (2.5m? ish?) but if they can swallow a lump this size, (about the size of a large possum or a small wallaby) then they can certainly swallow one of our chickens. So we were glad to see that it found another meal instead, at least this time around.
