Snake

[StJon]

Snake found at the side of the road, hadn't been run over but seems to have had it's guts pulled out...

 

[Goatboy]

Some corvids have been known to do that.

 

[daveO]

I got a bit worried then until I saw your location wasn't in the UK. Is it an Asp Viper?

 

[StJon]

Yeh, one of the guys here said it was a viper, google search confirms it. It is taking me a while to come to terms of the fauna we have here, Tuscany, that could pose a danger on a trip to the woods. While out fishing a swimming snake went to my float, I've found porcupine quills and last night we had wild boar for dinner. Not like the west coast of Scotland...

 

[Adze]

that could pose a danger on a trip to the woods... Not like the west coast of Scotland...

Asps aren't anything like as venomous as ancient history told by Will Shakespeare would have you believe - like as not dear Cleo clutched a horned viper to her... errmm... chest not an asp as quoted. West coast of Scotland has adders, which are reasonably similar in terms of the lethality of their bite to an asp, so perhaps a little more like Scotland than just the weather would suggest