visitor to our chook pen ...

[Justabeginner]

Hi all

Well the other night we were watching the soccer (Argentina v Seirra Montinago - can't spell) and we heard the chickens going off!! Naturally thought it was the scrub python back for another chicken but no! A new night time raider. Mind you it had NO hope of getting a duck and even the bantam chicken would have been safe :lol:
http://community.webshots.com/user/justabeginner in the reptile album ..

nice looking animal, around the 5ft mark.

cheers
Ange

 

[ryanm]

Holy crap! I would kill to find one of these guys in my back yard!

That's an incredible-looking jungle! Was that what you found in your chicken coop?

ryanm

 

[Justabeginner]

yep! the normal visitor is the scrub python (morelia amethistina) around the 8ft mark ..... this jungle was relatively placid, didn't try and strike. We live on just over 3 acres, majority of which is still natural bush so we get lots of wanderers in our place. Makes life interesting

 

[ryanm]

Do you mind if I post that picture on another forum? I'm on a morelia-specific forum, and those guys *love* to see morelia in the wild.

I just hatched a whole group of chicken thieves myself

ryanm