Right before we went to sleep last night we heard something jump into the window well and bump into the window. We were a bit nervous to shine a flashlight through the window to see what was in there (especially after the skunk in the window well episode a couple summers back...), but Paul did take a peek and discovered a garter snake slithering and a frog hopping in the well.
This morning Paul opened the blinds to show the boys as soon as they woke up and discovered that the snake had begun eating the frog--it had one of the frog's legs in its mouth. As the morning progressed, we watched the snake open its mouth wider and manage to squeeze the frog into itself until just the head was showing. It looked like a snake with a frog's head.
Oh, the joy of being on the farm and getting to watch nature at its finest less than a foot away!
When Paul picked up the snake to throw it into the field away from the house, the snake did let go of the frog and slithered away. Eventually, the frog hopped off. And Paul is proud to say that he saved the life of a frog before 9:00 in the morning.
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| Lifting the snake from the window well |
1 comment:
Oh.my.word.
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