Siu Kwai Wan serpent

Python taking an unauthorised evening shortcut across a local patio. Photo (enlarge: click on image) by, and courtesy of, Dr Martin Williams. Doc Martin has a couple of great websites: Dr Martin Williams and HK Outdoors. Highly recommended.

Hello! Anyone's cat missing? If so, it might have been grabbed and then eaten by one of the pythons that lives up the northern end of a little island in the South China Sea. Couple of evenings ago, one such python was sighted on a patio in leafy, upscale Sui Kwai Wan (Small Ghost Bay). Thanks, Martin!
Oh, the 'small', according to Nick G, refers to the bay not the ghost. Nick G also tells me the serpent was a Burmese python. Thanks, Nick!
They grow up to five or six metres in length. Dr Martin Williams estimated this one's length at between 1-1.5 metres so that means it was a young 'un. That being the case, perhaps grabbing and swallowing a cat might be a tad over-ambitious. So, maybe it would be better to ask: anyone missing a kitten?
A year or so ago, some of the old biddies in the nearby public housing estate raised the alarm when they said there was a '100-foot serpent' lurking in the thick foliage surrounding the estate.
No one believed them until someone spotted a 20-foot python resting in the branches of a tree overhanging the entrance to the estate. Since such serpents are protected species, it was captured, not killed, and removed to Kadoorie Farm in the wilds of the New Territories. Once more unflustered, the old biddies went back to their morning tai chi.