Today I fulfilled a long-held dream.... to film a snake hunting and catching its prey. On three occasions in the past, I saw Indochinese long-nosed whip snakes with birds that they had caught, but which they failed to swallow. Sadly, on all three occasions the birds died and were eventually dropped by the snakes. This time, I was filming this Oriental Whip Snake when it spotted a frog and came rushing down from its bush to adopt an ambush posture and after a few minutes struck at and caught a small frog, which it then went on to consume. It is a very rare event indeed to get a whole sequence of behaviour like this.... and you can imagine that I was utterly elated at the end. This clip was filmed at my conservation project - Huai Khayeng Nature Park, Thong Pha Phum, Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
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Equipment Used
Camera: Sony a1
Lens: Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
Microphone: Rode VideoMic Pro+
Tripod: Miller Sprinter with Arrow 25 head
Species List
Oriental Whip Snake (Asian Vine Snake) - Ahaetulla prasina (งูเขียวหัวจิ้งจก)
Frog.... sadly unknown.