BIG SNAKE

Wendy and I were having a coffee outside yesterday about 11.00am and just outside the back fence there was a cacophony of screeching by about 20 birds of about six different varieties. We back onto a belt of rainforest so there are always plenty of birds but such a commotion, which had gone on for over 20 minutes, was unusual. I went out the back gate and got as close as I could to the focus of the birds' attention and sure enough there was a 3 metre python stretched along a branch about 8 metres above the ground. Wendy and Karissa came to look and we were sure it had just eaten a bird as it was a bit distended and this may have accounted for the noisy behaviour of other birds. It was grey and green with beautiful markings and it was superbly camouflaged against the branches. It just looked like one of the many vines looping around trees. Let's hope it stays in the forest!
We have had 170mm of rain in the past 4 days so everything is just so fresh and green. The Sunshine Coast's dams are overflowing and this is why Peter Beattie is building his SE Qld water grid to pump the water here to Brisbane's dams.