So I’ve seen a couple rat snakes in our shop / out building. Works for me because they keep the flying squirrels out. I also occasionally have to discourage bats from roosting under the porch of that building… I did not expect to ever walk up on a rat snake eating a bat. I decided to try taking a time lapse video.
by Pharsydr
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Would be torn on this one. I’m sure I’d let nature play out like you. I like the non-venemous snakes taking care of rodents. I like the bats taking care of the ~~state bird~~ mosquito population.
A snake eating a bat means Ozzy is coming back.
In all my years living behind the piney curtain of East Texas, I’ve never seen a snake eat a bat.
Shame to see the bat go. Glad the snake got a meal tho i suppose haha.
Maybe you can install a bat house some time in the future. Then again, maybe that just expands their real estate portfolio instead odnsolvingnyour problem. haha.
I love looking and listening for them at night when the weather is good.
Bat out in daylight and on the ground to get snagged by a snake? Snake might have gotten rid of a rabid bat.
Get ready for Super Mega COVID
My boyfriend swears he once saw a snake snatch a trout from the creek where he was fishing. No video proof though! 😅
This is amazing video, OP! I’m like you and prefer to let things play out: “In today’s Halloween Deathmatch we have Slithering Snake vs. Barn Bat! Annnnd Slithering Snake FTW!”
Is the nope rope using it’s body to help shove the bat down its throat?
covid 9000 in the works over there
Good snake.
Sat for 20 minutes yesterday watching a water moccasin eat a frog. The whole time I was thinking, boy I’m glad I have a field job
Incredible time lapse