These smaller ones tend to hang out on the patio. They are much shyer than the big green ones. I don't know if it's a different kind of lizard, or what. I watched this one try to catch a big bee this morning ... so shy of people, but still macho.
They are hard to get a good picture of, tho ...
Cheri'
Cheri', yours has a white stripe down his back! He must be trying to match the bricks and mortar. Or else he is trying to be a 'skunk' lizard, something like Pepe la Pew. LOL.
Pepe la Lizard! LOL!
There are several that look like this living on and around my patio. They are smaller than the big green ones. They do change color, like the green ones do, but the colors are dark, and the stripe is always there.
Like I said, I don't know if it's a different species, or just a different 'cultivar' LOL!
But they are cute and they eat bugs.
Cheri'
I had to grab the camera. I was out trying to see if there were any leftover seeds on this Tacoma (weren't) but I found this. Look very closely, he's green with a couple black markings on him with his sly lizard eye. Everytime I tried to get his picture, he'd move to the back of the tree limb. I don't know what kind he is, but he lives here in our neighborhood.
He's an untouchable pet.
:^)
Molly
Great camoflage he has! I finally saw his eye, though.
I loved the phrase, "sly lizard eye." Too cute.
Here's one of my boys, hopping around the garden pots.
Darling photos! Isn't he just too cute?
Here's a shot of the 'night shift', a gecko. They come out at night, when the native lizards are off for the night.
Geckos only showed up here in the last 10 or 15 years. At first, it was thought they wouldn't survive . . . but they did.
I love 'em. Unlike our native lizards, geckos wiggle when they walk. =-)
Cheri'
Ha! Cheri', looks like you snuck up on him and scared the beans out of him! LOL.
LOL! he does look startled, doesn't he?
I confess, it wasn't me who took this shot, it was my DD. I was wishing I could get a shot of one on the window, but the flash makes it impossible. When you look at their underside on a window like that, you can see thru them - or maybe into them is more like it. Anyway, if they've eaten anything lately, you can see it . . . gross, but interesting.
Cheri'
here's another gecko
this one's trying to blend into the window screen but if you click on the pic you can actually see him
lol
it's so hard to get a good pic of these guys!
wish i could get a pic of their underbellies
it's really nifty, they're semi see through, so you can see their internal organs, and whatever their latest meal was
Cool picture!
;~D
LimeyLisa Kay
You'll have to come back down here Kimberley. We have those wall lizards everywhere! They live under cement and rocks and logs and come out to lay in the sun. Right now I am loving them because the are eating the cicadas. LOL
I am just flabbergasted. I thought lizards were a tropical thing. When we were in Tennessee I saw 2 different kinds at the state park and now Chele you tell me you gottem up in Ohio. (There sure weren't any in Michigan where I grew up)
Ya learn something new every day.
:^))))
Molly
We have so full of them around here.. But I haven't see any Gecko around here.. My kitty Tiger like to chase after them. I had to go outside and make him to get it go free. He think it's fun to play with them. I have lizard as Sunray do.
Coincidentally, my sister mentioned that she had looked up information on anoles and that the white stripe down the backs of some were indicative of females.
This is "generally" true, but not always. I found this page, with some interesting information about sexing green anoles.
http://www.geocities.com/dozergh91/Page-Sexing.html
Found some interesting information while Googling 'anoles.' Some people keep these as pets -- they actually PAY for them. I could make a fortune selling the ones in my back yard! LOL.
Tres Cool! Thanks for posting that. =)
Cheri'
We used to enjoy lizards in our yard before the #*!^&-' neighborhood cats wiped them out.
Today I watched a lizard (anole?) take on a cut worm, and lose. =(
I hate cut worms, hate the thought that they exist on the same planet with me . . . ewe! So I spayed him with alcohol spray - HA! take that! Now I can't find him, dead or alive . . . Maybe the lizard hauled his dieing carcass off for lunch . . . heh heh heh
Cheri'
