A checkered past - more pics of the CHECKERED KEELBACK

Here are some more pics of the lovely CHECKERED KEELBACK . Fowlea flavipunctatus.

Here this one is having a yawn, photographed by my son, Jack Ferguson, in Sai Kung.

Here a closer shots, showing a different snake with some slightly different colouration.

Active during the night and day, the Checkered Keelback is relatively common in Hong Kong.

often seen in ponds and hear water, this lovely, harmless reptile hunts small amphibians and fish.