[birdky] Brown Thrasher vs snake in the bush
- From: "Preston Forsythe" <pns_for@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "BiRDKY" <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 09:13:03 -0500
Yesterday I was doing some yard work, staking up some leggy hibiscus
branches. All of a sudden I heard a big ruckus, and something almost like a
human baby crying. The other sounds have no description. What in the world
was it? A shrub about 30 feet away from me was where all the action was.
Surely there was no baby in there. I watched as a brown thrasher hopped
around on the ground, then up into the shrub. Again, and again. Hmmm. Lots
of thrasher "chip" sounds too. So I tried to see what was going on. The
shrub has very dense foliage so I couldn't see very far into it, but finally
I saw part of a coil of a smooth black snake that looked to be as large as
my arm. Wow. I went off to get a hoe. I thought I might coax the snake out
of the bush, but then what? When I got back the snake was no where to be
seen, and when I parted the foliage I could see the nest was empty. The
adult birds were still chipping, but more calm.
It is amazing to me that the snake could find that nest, when we didn't know
it was there, and we are outside in the area a lot. My husband saw a brown
thrasher chase a snake across the driveway a couple weeks ago, maybe 75 feet
from this nest. We always have brown thrashers nesting here, but I have
never seen this happen. I like the snakes, and know that they have to eat,
but I don't want them to eat my toads, skinks, bird eggs, or baby birds! And
I especially don't want to see it happen.
Shari Forsythe in Browder, Muhlenberg County
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