'I received a great picture from Mark, an Army contractor up in Mosul. The picture shows a water snake (probably Natrix tesselata) eating a fish in a small pond on his base. Also in the picture is a frog (I'd guess it is a Marsh Frog (Rana ridibunda) ) . (I'm having trouble with my image server so I'll post the picture soon)"

But as if to make up, this post includes:

"(link to an audio of the male toad's advertisement call)."
Birding Babylon