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Looking for an ID on the type of snake. Thanks!

video footage on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uyT4Cbx2XU

This heron flew right over our heads carrying a live writhing snake. I've yet to identify it.

Ratsnake with a story to tell...

Light pink with white design on head

Looks like it was eating a turtle

Second day of the Urban Wildlife Conference in DC, and I was lucky to go on a field trip to Teddy Roosevelt Island -- what a super interesting place!

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Snake being eaten by a sandhill crane.

Crane observation:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/138462573

Three sandhill cranes along the edge of the road. One of them caught and ate a smooth greensnake.

Snake observation:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/138462588

being eaten by a green heron. 59 degrees F. , overcast

eating a ribbon snake

Observation for the snake.

Observation for the bird: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146664948

Ejemplar encontrado durante una práctica de campo con estudiantes de la universidad del sur de Gales.

Individual found during a fieldtrip with students of a university of south Gales.

Crotalus oreganus eating Sauromalus ater

Being preyed upon by a great blue heron

Lucky capture of incident. Prey originally thought to be worm but noticed snake later in editing. Not clear if the bird succeeded in consuming it. Snake ID suggested by naturalist friend.

different individual from 141267149. Feeding on yellow rumped warbler

Posted on behalf of a friend. The bird is clearly a Great Blue Heron., but we would be interested in thoughts as to what the prey is that it is devouring.

Immature Red-shouldered Hawk eating what I believe to be a CA Striped racer

Amelanistic or possibly albinistic Dekay’s Brown Snake

Young widow with baby blackhead snake

Observation for the gecko, not the spider.

Ceda Sink Trail , Mammoth Cave, Ky

Common Snapping Turtle - Chelydra serpentina
Preying on: Eastern Fox Snake - Pantherophis vulpinus
We had seen a Fox Snake basking in this area the day before. Other birders noted its likely fate.

Eating a snail

Rainbow snake eating a Capefear river Eel

For the prey

Gt blue heron catching a snake. Not sure of name of snake.

This snake is being carried (and ultimately eaten) by a Great Egret

breakfast for a Cattle Egret

Being eaten by black crowned night heron. the snake wrapped itself around some sticks and the heron had a very difficult time getting the snake killed and removed from the stick.

cattle egret - but what snake?

Orlando Wetlands Park, Orange County, FL, November 2017.

Orlando Wetlands Park, Orange County, FL, November 2017.

In gut contents of DOR Black Racer (Coluber constrictor): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111259008

Orlando Wetlands Park

Observation for snake

Subdued by pied-billed grebe

Some snake killing a bat

Caught and consumed by a white ibis

Could be a snake, but I think I see pectoral fins.

Black snake eating a frog

Found it funny bc a male wood frog tried to initiate amplexus in a spotted (bwahahahahhaha)

I had no idea that herons liked eating snakes until I saw this!! I think he's eating a common water snake...

immature, with his catch, a Brown Basilisk
See second photo: down the hatch...