A SNAKE has been filmed trying to eat a frog in an Evesham woman's garden.

The video was captured in the garden of Niki Bodell in Hampton last week.

In the video, you can see the snake with the frog's head in its mouth before the frog makes a daring escape and swims to freedom only to be chased in the water by the snake moments after.

She said: "I put the video in a Facebook group as I thought someone’s pet snake had escaped.

"My husband came in and told me that I wasn’t going to believe what he was going to show me, from our own tiny pond.

"I was very surprised as I had no idea that an indigenous snake would be as big as this or choose to come to our pond."

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Mrs Bodell said her husband was in the garden tending to the pond and trying to look for frogs, which the couple already knew were living in the pond.

Mrs Bodell said: "On Thursday afternoon last week (July 6) my husband was working on our garden close to the new wildlife pond we had installed.

"It’s been in situ for around four weeks or so now. He just happened to be looking in the pond for the frogs when he saw the snake trying to eat one.

"Fortunately, he had his phone with him and, was able to record a video of the scene as it happened."

The snake in the video has been identified as a grass snake by Worcestershire Wildlife Trust.

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A spokesperson said: "Grass snakes are the biggest native snake in the UK; a mature female can grow to over one metre in length.

"Whilst they may be troublesome for frogs and toads, they’re harmless to humans.

"Snakes may have a slithery reputation with some people but, just as they eat frogs and toads, they, in turn, can be meals for badgers, foxes, hedgehogs and some birds.

"Numbers of grass snakes have been declining due, in large part, to habitat loss and, as with all native reptiles in the UK, it is illegal to harm or kill them."