A HAWK dropped its snake prey on a woman mowing her lawn – and she endured a bizarre billion-to-one ordeal as both creatures attacked her.
Peggy Jones, 64, was in her garden in Silsbee, Texas, when the four-and-a-half foot snake suddenly fell onto her arm and began striking at her arm and face.
The hawk – which had dropped the serpent onto her after grabbing it – swooped down to retrieve it and sank its talons deep into Peggy’s flesh as she battled the pair of predators.
Peggy told last night how she feared she could die but escaped with puncture wounds and cuts and bruising to her arm and face.
She said: “As I was trying to sling my arm and sling the snake off, the snake wrapped around my arm.