Hawk versus Snake

 by John Rich

From that title you might think this story is about the latest Kurt Russell tough-guy movie, perhaps a sequel to "Escape from New York".  Well, not quite, but it is about two tough creatures battling it out against each other.  Read on...

This story is one that has been looping around on the internet for a while, and when a friend sent it to me recently, I took another look at it.  The story always goes something like this:

This has to be the weirdest thing that ever floated by me in the river.

They were stuck together in death lock, each wanting to kill the other first.

My guess is that the falcon snatched up the tasty snake, and it somehow got its tail around the falcons neck, strangling it in midair causing both of them to crash into the Comal river. They are both alive and well, considering.

I think a few more minutes and the snake would have won. The tail was actually tied in a knot around the neck, and getting tighter by the second. I got the snake untied, and well, as you can see, they both made it.

This is another one of those stories you tell, and are always acknowledged with "yeah, right!" Well, heres the proof.

Neither of them bit me or scratched me, the snake didnt want to stop biting the falcons leg, and only let go after I had untied everything else.

I got the water out of the falcons lungs with birdie inversion technique, and stayed with him until he was almost dried off in the sun, and flying a little.

 

Ball of snake and falcon, that is the weirdest thing I have pulled out of the water so farThis has to be the weirdest thing that ever floated by me in the river.

There you have the basic story.  In some versions the identification of the type of bird changes.  In other tellings the name of the river in which it occurred changes, perhaps as people desire to make it appear close to home.  But whatever the real truth, the photos seem to be genuine, and they are spectacular.  Check 'em out, below.

The author, John Rich, versus his own snake