ONE DAY WHILE BUILDING FENCE WE NOTICED AN ACTIVITY A FEW YARDS AWAY IN THE GRASS.  UPON CLOSER INSPECTION WE SAW TWO SNAKES ENGAGED IN MORTAL COMBAT.  IT WAS A COACHWHIP AND A RATTLESNAKE.   THEY WERE ABOUT THE SAME SIZE BUT THE FASTER COACHWHIP HAD THE BEST OF THE RATTLESNAKE AND THE COACHWHIP HAD BEGUN TO SWALLOW THE RATTLESNAKE HEAD FIRST.  I RAN TO GET MY CAMERA AND BY THE TIME I GOT BACK THE RATTLESNAKE WAS HALF SWALLOWED.  IT DIDN’T LAST LONG AND THEN THE COACHWHIP WAS ON HIS WAY.  I HAD ALWAYS HEARD OF THIS BUT IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I WITNESSED IT.   JUST ANOTHER ONE OF THE THINGS YOU GET TO SEE OUT ON THE RANCH IN NATURES THEATRE.

~~LIVING ON AN ISOLATED RANCH IN WEST TEXAS, YOU SEE THINGS THAT MOST PEOPLE DON’T SEE OR EVEN KNOW EXIST. I TRY TO HAVE MY CAMERA HANDY TO RECORD SOME OF THESE THINGS. THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE SOME FROM TIME TO TIME.

SNAKE EATING SNAKE

RANCH HAPPENINGS