Two Florida deputies answered an unusual call last week when a resident called in about a possibly injured hawk in the street outside their home.

Two deputies from Alachua County answered the call and indeed found a hawk in the middle of the street.

The bird of prey wasn’t exactly injured, but it did have a snake wrapped around its neck and was slowly being strangled.

In a video posted to the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, the two deputies — Chris Dasher and Luis Forero — can be seen working in tandem to free the hawk, which likely had designs on eating the snake before the reptile threw the bird a most unwelcome curve.

Using their batons, Dasher and Forero manage to loosen the snake from the hawk and then one of the them grabs the snake behind its neck and together they unwrap the unlikely coupling.

Once finished, the hawk quickly flew away, while one of the deputies tossed the snake a few feet away before it slithered off.

In the Facebook post, the sheriff’s office said Sheriff Clovis Watson was “very thankful for Deputy Sheriff’s like Dasher and Forero, who go ‘above and beyond’ the call of duty in incidents that may be outside of their normal scope of duty.”