{"id":866504,"date":"2026-08-21T18:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866504\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T18:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:48:20","slug":"video-what-even-is-that-bullsnake-filmed-swimming-on-lake-diefenbaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866504\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: \u2018What even is that?\u2019 bullsnake filmed swimming on Lake Diefenbaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ad7e138e-aa07-4438-8906-a50073622956.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bull snakes live (and swim) in southwestern parts of Saskatchewan. They stay mostly near major river valleys and lakes in native grassland areas likes the shores of Lake Diefenbaker. (Image Credit: ID 19816345 \u00a9  Angel Hill | Dreamstime.com)<\/p>\n<p>By CKOM<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not a fish<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 21, 2026 | 10:48 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Boats. Birds. Swimmers. These are the things you expect to see when you\u2019re out on the lake.<\/p>\n<p>A giant snake skimming along the surface is not typically part of the experience. But that\u2019s exactly what Brad Magnan and his friends saw \u2014 and captured on camera \u2014 while fishing at Lake Diefenbaker, south of Saskatoon, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was our first time at that lake. We didn\u2019t know there would be snakes at all there,\u201d Magnan said.<\/p>\n<p>Magnan, who is from Breton, Alta., southwest of Edmonton, admits he was a little startled when he first saw the bullsnake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bull snakes live (and swim) in southwestern parts of Saskatchewan. They stay mostly near major river valleys and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-866504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}