Wildlife Gardening: Anyone out there providing rock piles for snakes?, 0 by oldmudhouse

oldmudhouse wrote:
No big rock piles here, sadly. I love rocks, and managed to load several into our U-Haul when we moved here from Texas...but not many as many as I wanted. As it was, we did blow a tire on the U-Haul trailer outside of El Paso! Still, rocks are worth it.

We've only seen one snake here so far, a gopher snake. I'm trying to learn the lizards, but as you said, indirt, the fast ones are hard to ID! Here's a fellow that was kind enough to hold still for me last week. I tried to ID him on the internet, and I think he's a male desert spiny lizard (Sceloporus magister). He was 8 or 9" long overall, a fat beefy guy.