Families find huge pythons using backyard as brunch restaurant

Two families on the Sunshine Coast have woken to find a scene straight out of an animal documentary in their backyards as two pythons gorged on a cockatoo and a possum. SEE THE PHOTOS

A Carpet Python at a home in Maroochydore finishing off a Cockatoo. Photo: Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7

TWO Sunshine Coast families have woken up to giant pythons gorging themselves in a feast, one chowing down on a cockatoo, the other on a large possum.

On Tuesday morning, a family in Maroochydore woke to a huge carpet python hanging from their clothesline eating a large cockatoo.

The reptile tied itself around the clothesline and attempted to swallow the whole bird.

Bird feeders can attract birds, and birds attract snakes. Photo: Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7.

The clothesline had a bird feeder on it, which Stuart McKenzie from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers said can attract snakes.

“This carpet python was hanging out on the family's clothesline which acted as a bird feeder. It was only a matter of time until it got himself a nice feed of bird,” Mr McKenzie said.

A happy carpet python with a belly full of cockatoo. Photo: Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7.

On Wednesday morning, a family found a carpet python hanging from the roof with a half-eaten possum in its mouth at a Mooloolaba home.

A Carpet Python eating a large possum at a home in Mooloolaba. Photo: Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7

Mr McKenzie said the huge meal “will keep him going for a while”, but the owners of the house were a bit more spooked.

“They were a bit shocked but at the same time they were fascinated by it all,” Mr McKenzie said.

Carpet Pythons can grow longer than 3 metres long! Photo: Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7

Carpet pythons are not venomous to humans but can still cause damage with their huge bite.

They can grow to up to three metres in length, like to feed on frogs, lizards, birds, mammals and can be found right across Australia.