With Valeri Ponzo. A foggy morning -- but very successful nonetheless.
While hiking back from plant monitoring in Restoration Area 2019 of the Hole-in-the-Donut (Everglades National Park), we saw movement and heard squealing in the grasses about three feet from us. It was a corn snake grabbing a hispid cotton rat! Such a crazy thing to see although we were only able to see the rustling and didn't see the actually hit. The rat stopped squealing pretty quick, maybe after 5-10 seconds.
Sorry for the poor picture quality. I took these while at work and I had my Amazon van blocking the road so I had to rush to get these pictures. I’ve never seen one of these here in south Florida. I have no idea what it could be.