Mind your step - and some mid-winter birding, Deep Bay, Hong Kong

I'm grateful to Thomas Chan for spotting this Burmese Python on the southern boundary of Mai Po Nature Reserve.  Snakes are usually more frightened of people than we are of them, but still....that's a lot of fear to go round ! This shot of the head is a big crop with the 500mm lens - I wasn't getting close to it ... Burmese Python (Python bivittatus) Burmese Python (Python bivittatus