Hardly a fodient carnivore, I once in Virginia saw a snake over three feet long come
up out of the turf from a ground squirrel tunnel at base of a big splitleaf maple,
that had a very large cavity in which snakes had laid eggs for many years, which
was shown to me when the tree had to be cut down before it fell on the garage.
The man who cut the tree down was a moonllighting biologist, who showed
me some unhatched eggs, and some newly hatched snakes about the size of a
bllpoint pen, which he said were "field moccasins" capable of injecting enough venom
even that young to be dangerous. So the snake was foe of the fodient groundsquirrels.