As he looked in another angle, he noticed the commotion was coming from a tree very near him. He spied a large snake slowly making its way to a nest, high up in a tree.

The mama bird was frantically fluttering her wings while chirping, trying to 'scare' the snake away. Not working, and seeing it was too close to her, she left her nest.

The hunter sat there, watching, knowing the sure outcome of these little birds, when he noticed the mama bird making a quick dash back to her nest. She was holding a red leaf in her beak,

she dropped it atop her nest, and flew away to a nearby branch, watching.The hunter thought on this action that this little creature took, so puzzled by it, he thought, surely the bird was maybe trying to "hide" her chicks. He thought in his mind, not a chance!

That snake has "zeroed -in"  on his prey. Then the hunter witnessed something very perplexing.....strange. Just as the snake came up to the tip of the nest, he turned and began his journey back down the limb and then off the tree.

The hunter could not figure this out at all until hecame to one of the natives later that night.The native asked him if he had any "luck" today, during his hunt. The hunter replied, "I didn't, but a little bird did".

As he began to relay to the native about what he saw, the native told him that it was a poisonous leaf that she dropped in the nest. Highly poisonous to the snake, they "just know" NOT to TOUCH it!!!!!

The Bible says that God sees the 'sparrows'. If He provided a certain leaf that isoffensive to this snake, thus by it her young were not devoured.