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Old 02-14-2012, 02:37 PM
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Default Rat snake suffocating a Falcon

I got these from a buddy in an e-mail and thought I would share.

The following email was forwarded to me by a friend...which proves.... You never know what’s going to fall out of the sky .....
Comal River (New Braunfels) Texas.

This has to be the weirdest thing that ever floated past me in the river...A highly pissed off chicken snake wound tightly around a struggling falcon's neck.


They both were stuck together in a deadly embrace, each wanting to kill the other first.

My guess is that the falcon dove down & snatched the tastey chicken snake from a nearby patch of open ground, and the snake somehow got its tail wound around the falcon's neck and began strangling the hapless bird in midair, subsequently causing both of them to fall into the nearby Comal river. Unbelievably, they both survived and are alive & well, considering the odd circumstances.

I think if a few more minutes had elapsed, the chicken snake might have won the contest as the snake's tail was actually tied in a tight knot around the bird's neck and getting tighter by the second. I quickly pulled them from the water and quickly untied the snake. As one can plainly see, they both made it.

This is a prime example of those odd ball stories you occasionally tell which is usually acknowledges with "Yeah, Right !!!!!" But as you can see......here’s presented the actual proof...and I have the pictures to prove it.

Amazingly neither of the exhausted pair tried to bite or scratch me... The chicken snake though not at all venomous, didn’t want to stop biting hell out of the falcon's leg, it only let go after I had untied it's body from around the bird's neck.

Water was drained out of the falcons lungs via the "birdie inversion technique", I stayed with the bird til it's plummage was almost dry and ready to fly away. A tightly wound chicken snake around a startled falcon's neck has got to be one of the weirdest things I have ever seen and pulled out of the water........ so far !!!!
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Old 02-14-2012, 02:42 PM
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thats really cool , thanks
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Old 02-14-2012, 02:45 PM
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Holy sheit
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Old 02-14-2012, 02:53 PM
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Should have kept the the Falcon and trained it to hunt Squirells and Rabbits
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Old 02-14-2012, 03:21 PM
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Should have kept the the Falcon and trained it to hunt Squirells and Rabbits
There is a lot involved in that. You can't just grab a raptor and start hunting.
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Old 02-14-2012, 03:24 PM
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man thats nuts!
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Old 02-14-2012, 03:36 PM
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There is a lot involved in that. You can't just grab a raptor and start hunting.
Yet you do have to first capture a bird from the wild. Seems like the first part would have been done.
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Old 02-14-2012, 04:07 PM
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Yet you do have to first capture a bird from the wild. Seems like the first part would have been done.
And he didn't need state farm insurance.
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Old 02-14-2012, 04:39 PM
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Man great story.....Thanks for sharing!!!!!

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Old 02-14-2012, 04:47 PM
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There is a lot involved in that. You can't just grab a raptor and start hunting.

I know it was a joke.......A classmate of mine does falconry and I know more than the average person about.
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Old 02-14-2012, 04:49 PM
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And he didn't need state farm insurance.

I too brought a falcon with all the money I saved.
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Old 02-14-2012, 05:00 PM
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That is awesome. That falcon looks like he was trying to tap IMO. Where is Joe Rogan when you need him? He can make a name up for any kind of hold.
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Old 02-14-2012, 05:02 PM
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Cool pics and story thanks for sharing!


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why not?? The Beastmaster did it...and he had ferrets...
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Old 02-14-2012, 05:37 PM
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If that snake had grabbed a Waterloo instead of a Falcon....

















































He would'a had a whooped azz....I'm sure.
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Old 02-14-2012, 05:41 PM
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Cool pics and story thanks for sharing!




why not?? The Beastmaster did it...and he had ferrets...
Beastmaster was a pimp son!! Had ferrets,a eagle,black tiger. Pfffft strait up pimp
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Old 02-14-2012, 06:02 PM
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If that snake had grabbed a Waterloo instead of a Falcon....

















































He would'a had a whooped azz....I'm sure.
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LMAO was waiting on it.
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Old 02-14-2012, 06:48 PM
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Looks like a sharp shinned hawk and a texas phase western rat snake. Falcons usually have dark eyes and facial masks. Yellow eye is juvenile sharp shinned hawk.
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