After less than 30 seconds, the black racer elevated the front part of it’s body off the ground and slithered into the bushes with the copperhead firmly grasped in the mouth and two thirds of the body dangling alongside the racer.
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Owen Slater Photography 
I was looking for confirmation of an old New England belief and found it on your website. Farmers here in Connecticut have always maintained that if you have black snakes on your property, you won’t find any “red snakes” as they call copperheads because of the tendency for the former to eat the latter. Your photos are proof positive of the veracity of their claim.