Well my old man went down to the deer lease without me a few weekends back and he ended up seeing this blue indigo snake munching on a bigass rattlesnake. Just thought i would share.

 

wow thats something

 

interesting. gotta admit...being a yankee, I've never heard of blue indigo. Some quick googlin and I found that the eastern diamond back is the blue indigo's preferred food choice. WTF? How the hell does a nonpoisonous snake take down a poisonous snake. Especially the finky and il-tempered eastern rattler. Sneaky bastard.

 

dang was i thinkin you killed a snake beau and were inviting us over to eat it that would be a sweet

 

those ******* are mean...

 

Ya just don't see that everyday! I've spent years in the stix of FL and have never caught one feeding, let alone on a rattler. And FL has penty of both. We just call that an Indigo, but it's got three or four common names. People think they're Black Racers too, but those are only similar in color, Indigo being much larger(thicker) usually and nowhere near as quick as the racer.

Good photo!

 

damn in the 20+ years i've been going to the ranch i've never seen that. but i've always heard they do whip some rattle snake butt
nice pic.

 

If only my girlfriend could accomplish that very same task.....

 

you know that saying, theres always someone better, stronger, faster. i guess it applies to this pic