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brave_crazy
 Post subject: Snake: Vine snake (Bird snake)
Unread postPosted: Wed May 17, 2006 11:17 am 
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Sightings where ok, due to overgrown veg, but everything looks great. Saw this little guy on the Phalaborwa-Letaba sand road on the 1st May.Not great with my snake id's except the real bad boys like the Rinkhals. If someone could please assist.



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Jumbo
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Unread postPosted: Wed May 17, 2006 11:46 am 
Hi brave_crazy

Your photo is a bit small, but I saved it to my computer and it seems to be a Vine Snake….looks like a nice big one.

I posted a photo of one here. Mine was still a baby.

Nice sighting! :D


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JCM
 Post subject: Snake: Southern Bird
Unread postPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 4:40 pm 
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At the longweekend of 1 May, while looking after my children swimming at the pool near the camping area at Skukuza, a Vine snake caught an agama. A lady looking after some other children, sitting on a bench, was shocked as the snake caught the agama in a buffalothorn tree right above her head. For a while it was resting on a big branch...probably waiting for its venom to take effect. It then moved up to higher branches letting the agama hanging down. Slowly it started to swallow the agama. It took about half an hour...amazing stuff!!
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Micetta
 Post subject: Re: Vine/Twig snake killing tree agama-Skukuza
Unread postPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 4:42 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Vine/Twig snake killing tree agama-Skukuza
Unread postPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 5:11 pm 
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Incredible sighting and equally amazing pics! Thanks for posting!

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Janette
 Post subject: Re: Vine/Twig snake killing tree agama-Skukuza
Unread postPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 8:14 pm 
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Fanatastic!!! Lucky you! :mrgreen:


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CuriousCanadian
 Post subject: Re: Vine/Twig snake killing tree agama-Skukuza
Unread postPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 8:18 pm 
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Wow...what a series!!!! :clap:

A bit scary, tho... :shock:

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Mike1916
 Post subject: Re: Vine/Twig snake killing tree agama-Skukuza
Unread postPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 8:19 pm 
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:big_eyes: Brilliant Sighting :clap: :clap:
Great Pictures :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up:

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 Post subject: Re: Vine/Twig snake killing tree agama-Skukuza
Unread postPosted: Mon May 11, 2009 1:56 pm 
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awesome sighting, thanks for sharing

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 Post subject: Re: Vine/Twig snake killing tree agama-Skukuza
Unread postPosted: Mon May 11, 2009 11:14 pm 
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:roll: Now that was really was a sighting and a half!!!!great set of pics :clap: --mike

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AFRICAT
 Post subject: Re: Vine/Twig snake killing tree agama-Skukuza
Unread postPosted: Tue May 12, 2009 12:51 am 
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Boy did you bring back ancient memories with your beautiful photos! While hiking in S. Africa years and years ago, we saw the exact same thing, vine snake catch and devour an agama. We were mesmerized the whole time! Will post a couple poor photos for documentation, but really appreciate your jogging our memory, and even more, for your wonderful photography. (Will we see more of it sometime soon?)

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 Post subject: Re: Vine/Twig snake killing tree agama-Skukuza
Unread postPosted: Tue May 12, 2009 8:06 am 
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Wow! Those are such cool sightings! Truly awesome pics... :clap:


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JCM
 Post subject: Re: Vine/Twig snake killing tree agama-Skukuza
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Thanx for your post AFRICAT.......I will definitely remember this sighting as long as you did yours!!
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 Post subject: Re: Vine/Twig snake killing tree agama-Skukuza
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Fantastic pictures! All round Great!


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Rusty Justy
 Post subject: Re: Vine/Twig snake killing tree agama-Skukuza
Unread postPosted: Tue May 12, 2009 11:15 pm 
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WOW........what hectic sightings...never seen a Vine Snake yet!! :evil:

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