I read your recapture post and have a good one to tell also.

Back in the 80's a buddy and I caught a blackrat on a powerline crossing on the way to our cabin.He kept the snake for a few months and decided he would release it on the way to the cabin for a work weekend.So we drop the snake off at the powerline right where we found it and on to the cabin we go.An hour later,a fellow cabin member pulled into the lane and said he just saw a redtailed hawk carrying a big black snake at the powerline!We just looked at each other dumbfounded.My buddy even said he felt bad that he kept the snake only to release it into the clutches of a hawk.

Two summers later while on the way to our cabin I find a blackrat at the same powerline crossing that has what looks to be healed over talon marks all over it's back.I thought of the snake we released two years previous and thought about the possibilities that the hawk could have dropped the snake and it survived.

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