Having been here in the Philippines for going on 6 years I struggle to find things to get excited about or to stimulate the interest. However, every so often when you're least expecting it, something will crop up.
This is exactly what happened last weekend. Out for a drive for no particular reason than to get out of the house, I went down a side road that is fairly remote and out of the way. On my way back to the main road. I saw this beauty crossing the road:
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It's a Red-Tailed Green Ratsnake (Gonyosoma Oxycephalum), which is an odd name as according to the Wikipedia page it eats mostly birds and bats.
This one was moving quite slowly across the road and probably at least 6 ft in length. Had I known at the time that it was non-venomous I might have grabbed it by the tail and taken some better photos but without that information I was staying in the the safety of the vehicle to watch it.
