Detailed photos of a cat-eyed snake eating a gliding leaf frog.....VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED
if you get a chance, read about the explosive breeding events by gliding leaf frogs (Agalychnis spurrelli). They happen several times during the rainy season. During these breeding events hundreds, if not thousands, of these frogs are climbing all over each other in huge groups, mating above the water. Unsurprisingly, frog eating predators usually abound once they realize this is going on.....this is a cat-eyed snake swallowing the last part of a gliding leaf frog during a breeding event just outside my house.
I saw this happening about 8 or 9 feet up in a tree....I ran back to the house and got a makeshift wobbly wooden stool and used it to climb into the tree. I was holding onto the tree with my left hand and holding the camera with my right hand....I had to hold the camera above and in front of me to get it level with the snake's head and i focused by looking at the screen on the back of the camera.
Go ahead, ask me anything about these shots
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Especially considering what you had to do to get them!
You are a talented photographer with a huge grasp of the technical aspects. Your work is stellar! Seems to me that Andy felt the same as I do.
pretty soon as far north as here in Tampa, we'll have to worry about pythons but not in the trees.
Our good snakes the black racer and rat snake however climb better than I can!
