Hungry snake makes meal of helpless bat

A Queensland couple has filmed a carpet python chowing down on a bat for dinner in the backyard of their Sunrise Beach home.

In a stomach-churning video uploaded to Facebook by Mille Stoevring and Shane Tuer, the three-metre-snake can be seen making a meal of the animal while hanging upside down in a tree.

Sunshine Coast snake catcher Stuart McKenzie told the Courier Mail the vision was some of the best he had seen.

"As snake catchers, especially when it warms up, we’re often called out to a homes where the snake is stuck in the pet enclosure after it has eaten a chicken or something like that," he said.

"You don’t often see shots of the snake halfway through its feed."

Mr McKenzie said the couple had left the snake to slither around their garden undisturbed.

“Like with any snake, if you leave them alone they’ll leave you alone - they’re more afraid of you than you are of them,” he said.

While this particular species is harmless, Queensland snake catchers often come up against many of the deadliest snakes on earth.

Yahoo7 has found some of their best call outs, that will probably leave you checking under your bed and behind the fridge more often.

You know it's time to call a snake catcher...

1. When a two-metre eastern brown snake decides to chase a rat under the house:

2. When a carpet python nicknamed ‘Mike Tyson’ tries to bite your face off because it’s eaten a ten-year-old galah and doesn’t want to be touched because it’s feeling full:

3. When a brown snake decides to go for a quick dip in the pool and gets stuck:
4. When some kids try to remove a red bellied black snake with a broom and make it super angry:
5. When a goanna keeps stealing your chicken eggs:
6. When a keelback snake decides to hangout under the fridge because it’s scared of a big storm:
7. When a tree snake eats a water dragon whole and decides to loiter outside the local shops:
8. When an eastern brown wants to hangout at the local pharmacy but isn’t invited:
9. When a nine-foot python decides to eat your 30-year-old bird named Bundy:
10. When a snake decides to pretend to be a fire hose:

11. When you lift up your car bonnet to find a huge snake coiled around the engine