Texas woman seriously injured after hawk drops snake on her

A Texas pistillate was attacked by a hawk and a snake astatine the aforesaid clip aft the vertebrate - which eats snakes - accidentally dropped the wriggling serpent connected her.

Peggy Jones, 64, was mowing her tract past period erstwhile a passing hawk dropped a snake connected her earlier swooping down to angrily effort to reclaim its meal.

The snake wrapped itself astir her limb and began striking her look arsenic the vertebrate sunk its talons heavy into her flesh.

The terrifying ordeal near her with cuts and bruising to her limb and face.

The bizarre incidental took spot connected 25 July successful the municipality of Silsbee, Texas, adjacent the Louisiana border.

It began aft a snake abruptly fell retired of the entity and landed connected her. Before she could region it, the hawk onslaught began.

"As I was trying to sling my limb and sling the snake off, the snake wrapped astir my arm," she told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.

"The snake was striking successful my face, it struck my glasses a mates of times... I was slinging and slinging, helium was striking and striking, and helium conscionable kept hanging on."

She realised it indispensable person been dropped by a passing bird, since she was not lasting nether trees erstwhile it happened. Her presumption was rapidly confirmed erstwhile the hawk swooped down and joined successful the melee.

"Then the hawk appeared conscionable arsenic accelerated arsenic the snake appeared," Mrs Jones said.

"The hawk grabbed the snake that was wrapped astir my limb and pulled it similar helium was going to transportation it away. And erstwhile helium did, it flung my limb up. The hawk was carrying my limb and the snake with it."

The hawk struggled to region the snake from Mrs Jones body, stabbing her with its talons repeatedly arsenic it attempted to snatch backmost its food.

Eventually the snake was pulled from her arm, leaving her startled hubby to thrust her to the hospital.

"There were puncture wounds, cuts, abrasions, scratches and terrible bruising," she said, adding that the snake's attacks to her look damaged her glasses.

Mrs Jones described the onslaught arsenic severely traumatic, adding that she thought she was going to dice and has had occupation sleeping since it happened.

She told CBS that surviving successful agrarian Texas, she is nary alien to wildlife encounters.

"I've really seen a hawk prime up a snake. That's thing they do, that's however they termination their prey," she said.

But now, she says, its thing that she volition ever support successful mind.