Florida deputy breaks up fight between hawk and snake

Florida deputy breaks up fight between hawk and snake

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Aldous said both the hawk and the snake were OK after being disentangled

FLORIDA (Web Desk) - A Florida sheriff s deputy responding to a report of an injured hawk on a sidewalk arrived to find the bird of prey engaged in a battle with a long black snake.

The Alachua County Sheriff s Office said Deputy Nick Aldous recently responded to a report of an injured hawk on a sidewalk near Gainesville, and the deputy arrived to find the hawk had a black snake wrapped around its body.

Body camera footage posted to Facebook by the sheriff s office shows Aldous using gloves and towels to unwrap the snake from the hawk s body.

Aldous said both the hawk and the snake were OK after being disentangled from one another.