PYTHON: Lisa Hodgson captured a video of a carpet python eating a bird while hanging from a roof.
COOCHIEMUDLO Island resident Lisa Hodgson has captured video of a carpet python eating a bird while hanging from a gutter.
Ms Hodgson said snakes were quite a common sight on the roof of her neighbour’s house.
They seemed to be attracted to the birds that drank water from the gutter.
Ms Hodgson said the snake was eating a rainbow lorikeet.
“It was hanging from the gutter for about an hour,” she said.
CAUGHT: Melanie Neumann called in a snake catcher recently when she spotted a snake wrapped on her gate, quite high up on a balcony on her house at Wellington Point. Photo: Melanie Neumann
“It was seemed to be using gravity to help it digest the bird.”
Ms Hodgson said after an hour, the python slithered onto the roof.