[duck enticer]

I got these from a buddy in an e-mail and thought I would share.

The following email was forwarded to me by a friend...which proves.... You never know what’s going to fall out of the sky .....
Comal River (New Braunfels) Texas.
This has to be the weirdest thing that ever floated past me in the river...A highly pissed off chicken snake wound tightly around a struggling falcon's neck.

They both were stuck together in a deadly embrace, each wanting to kill the other first.

My guess is that the falcon dove down & snatched the tastey chicken snake from a nearby patch of open ground, and the snake somehow got its tail wound around the falcon's neck and began strangling the hapless bird in midair, subsequently causing both of them to fall into the nearby Comal river. Unbelievably, they both survived and are alive & well, considering the odd circumstances.

I think if a few more minutes had elapsed, the chicken snake might have won the contest as the snake's tail was actually tied in a tight knot around the bird's neck and getting tighter by the second. I quickly pulled them from the water and quickly untied the snake. As one can plainly see, they both made it.

This is a prime example of those odd ball stories you occasionally tell which is usually acknowledges with "Yeah, Right !!!!!" But as you can see......here’s presented the actual proof...and I have the pictures to prove it.

Amazingly neither of the exhausted pair tried to bite or scratch me... The chicken snake though not at all venomous, didn’t want to stop biting hell out of the falcon's leg, it only let go after I had untied it's body from around the bird's neck.

Water was drained out of the falcons lungs via the "birdie inversion technique", I stayed with the bird til it's plummage was almost dry and ready to fly away. A tightly wound chicken snake around a startled falcon's neck has got to be one of the weirdest things I have ever seen and pulled out of the water........ so far !!!!