[rlmorel]

They found a enormous King Cobra curled up in the bottom floor of my next door neighbor’s house.

We were waiting for the school bus, and someone ran over and said there was a big snake in this guys house. We all ran up, and bottom floor of those houses was half carport with screens and clear plastic around the lower floor.

There, curled up in a huge coil in the corner was a great black snake, we all peered at it until someone came by and shooed us all away. When we got on the bus, we saw a fire truck and a regular truck drive up to the kid’s house...

[Flycatcher]

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a King Cobra, in my humble opinion. I'm not alone. My birding partner for the breeding bird season of 2016 was also an avid amateur herpetologist like me. After the field season ended, he got a job in Thailand tracking King Cobras via telemetry. He texted me many pictures of himself handling the snakes, some of them pushing 11-feet long (they get longer, of course).

Great stuff!

He's now back in the West doing bird surveys again. But what a resume enhancer for a field biologist: King Cobra Tracker!