Pictured: Primary school children witness frog escape snake’s jaws
A group of primary school pupils on a school trip to a nature reserve witnessed a lucky escape by a frog, after it was caught by a grass snake.
The moment was caught on camera by Kate Fry, administrator at The Epiphany School in Bournemouth, Dorset, during the year five trip to Kingfisher Barn Visitor Centre in the Stour Valley Nature Reserve.
Ms Fry described the group’s surprise at seeing the dramatic encounter between the two animals.
She said: “We were lucky to see a grass snake capturing a frog. After several minutes the lucky frog managed to escape.
“It was a fantastic and quite unexpected experience seeing a predator capture his prey – but it proved too much for him.”
Vanessa Webster, the school’s headteacher, said: “Kingfisher Barn is a lovely local resource on our doorstep which we fully take advantage of as it’s less than a five-minute walk.
“The year five children were studying rivers and their local habitats. William was particularly thrilled by his pond dipping find – a ghost phantom midge.”
