Rat Snake mating

[Dr Hari Venkatesh K R]

Dear all,
Sharing with you a rare sight of rat snakes mating. We had observed this scene at around 8.30 in the morning. The scene took place inside our college campus just near to our Anatomy dissection hall & had a lot of human interference. then we had asked people to stop moving in and around the area. Because the mating was interuppted twice till 11 AM & the snakes had moved apart awaiting a calm atmosphere to reunite. At around 11.30 AM, we had seen those reuniting.

I had to move into the Gent's toilet for a better view, still not so much as i could shoot all photos through the ventilator holes on the wall. i was too far from the subject & as usual with my only EFS 55 to 250mm, which doesnt give good results from this great distance. But the scene became so rare when a domestic cat had suddenly emerged into the spot & visualized the whole event very closely without disturbing. This made me to post it under natural history section in Indiawilds.
Camera - Canon EOS 1000D
all the images have been cropped.