Good shot! Amazing how big a thing a snake can stretch its head over.
If you never have read it, you really, really need to read this Ron Rash story called "Hard Times." I think you would like it and get it. Here's a link to a free version: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40211528?seq=1/subjects
Funny story, my brother had changed a light bulb in his pen and laid the blown bulb in a nest and he went out the next day and one had just started trying to swallow it.
Nice one Nic
Its a Grey rat snake?
Mine got invested with mice and fieldrats. 4 nights of spotlighting with a .410 loaded with #7 shot solved the problem.
When ole preacher catches a thief he has a word of prayer and escorts him out of the pen with a sword so he can't come back in-- usually works?(View attachment 973542 Gen. 3)