Bird Eating Villain

This is the carpet snake that ate Peanut, my cockatiel. It must live in one of our roof spaces and patrol the area for rats, unsuspecting birds and frogs etc. We don't mind having the carpet snakes around because of their liking for rats and mice. We used to have a larger one that kept all our buildings vermin free. I am sure it took the occasional egg but we thought it a fair trade. We would see it occasionally or the skin it shed every year. Eventually it became so large that it ate our bantam rooster we had at the time (see post about Ken the Rooster).