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Ice snake

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Posted by Kendall Hetrick on January 27, 2010 at 10:59 PM
Ice snake
This morning as I was heading to town for the first trip with the semi, I was putting along letting things get warmed up. In the ditch along the road something caught my eye. Since I had been reminded recently never to leve home without a camera, I had my P&S. I think with the melting we had for a couple days the place it chose to winter was inundated. There was a red tail hawk around the area but evidently frozen snake was not on the menu. Not a great shot but I thought it was interesting.
Kodak Z612 44mm F4 1/125 ISO 400
Posted by Philip Schwarz on January 28, 2010 at 1:41 PM
Interesting catch. I've never seen a snake in the winter.
Posted by John Kerr on January 30, 2010 at 4:49 PM
That's somthing you don't see everyday. This time of year at least.
Posted by Toni Lankerd on January 31, 2010 at 9:25 AM
Interesting indeed, Kendall. Maybe a Hawk had gotten it but dropped the snake while in flight?