“he just dropped his lunch and wanted it back.”
Yes. Not too long ago I saw a hawk flying high in the sky with a snake dangling from its talons. I had no idea they were that bold, or hungry.
I was sitting on my back porch a while back. A hawk swooped down and grabbed a cat that was in my yard. He flew off with the cat screaming.
See my post above.
The most impressive snake demise I’ve seen was a water snake, probably 2-1/2 to 3 ft. long, swam past me as I was fishing @ a local pond some years back. It headed further out, and then there was this big “sploosh” and a surface “swirl”, and... a disappeared snake. It was dusk and I didn’t get a good look at the fish. In that pond it pretty much had to be a big Largemouth Bass or an even bigger Channel Catfish (which absolutely WILL hit prey on the surface).