I found this at the bottom of our garden early yesterday morning. It is a 2-foot (mature) female Grass Snake.
I was not until I processed the images that I saw the two small wounds. The fox left a faecal pellet as a final comment.
We get foxes in our garden every day/night. Currently, there are two (sisters?) vixens with two cubs of different ages, so they would be protective towards them.
We used to get more snakes a couple of decades ago. Now were are getting more foxes.
The stereo is crosseye.
Olympus EM-1 (manual mode), Olympus 4/3 50mm f2 macro, 1/250 at f11 ISO 250, twin flash hand-held.
birdied wrote:
Mamma fox protecting her babies. Too bad for the snake . I guess the foxes do not eat snakes ?
Birdie
Birdie.It seems not.
I know that Red Kites do, and, a few years ago, I saw one in flight with the snake dangling from its beak. However, I placed the dead snake where I place mice our cat has killed. The mice are taken in a few hours but the snake was untouched after I saw a kite at high altitude overhead, and it was a very hot day, so I buried it.
