Eastern Screech Owls in Texas bring live blind snakes to their nestlings, not just for food but perhaps to keep their nests tidy and sanitary as well. The chicks will eat some of the snakes, but most of the tiny (and seriously bizarre) serpents will live alongside the owlets in the nest debris and eat the parasitic fly and other insect larvae in decomposing pellets, fecal matter, and uneaten prey.
