Last May, I was witness to great drama in my pond as a Grass Snake caught and consumed a large Common Frog.
Although not quite a Crocodile attacking a Hippopotamus, it was nevertheless in a back garden context quite a sight, and something I've never seen before in many, many years of nature watching.
So when this week, almost a year to the day, I saw a commotion in the pond, I wasn't surprised to go out and find…