Can someone idrntify this critter?

This guy is about 10 inches long, and he hangs out in my workshop- we have to watch out so we don't step on him! I googled red headed lizard and came up empty-

That is a skink, common to the southeast. http://www.uga.edu/srelherp/lizards/eumlat.htm Edited to say the males head and throat turn red during the spring mating season. so you have a male broadhead looking for love.

This message was edited Apr 28, 2006 6:36 PM

Oh that is so neat looking!!!! Is he shy around you or warming up?

I have one of those "guys" that loves to sit on the wall of my house next to the water spigot. Thanks for the ID

How handsome! He's been around for awhile .. you can see that he's lost part of his tail and it regenerated also on his right hind leg, he's regenerating a 4th toe! I have one that lives in my shed, he's about 1.5 feet long and the same coloring.

Skinks come in assorted colors as well .. The picture shows a baby that hatched in my greenhouse.

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I love those baby ones with the bright blue tails.. We have them around here too. Last year I caught one and brought it home to show my bf's girls when they came down that weekend (I was trying to get them past the fear of all things crawly instilled by their mother..these poor kids were convinced that ALL snakes were poisonous and would kill you!!!) However my cats had different plans. I had the little platic critter keeper up on the mantle, I stepped outside to water the garden and heard a crash, I came in to find the critter keeper broken and a half-eaten skink in the mouth of one of the cats...learned the hard way that nowhere is a safe place for critters when the cat is a hunter..on the bright side I never saw a mouse, and to dispose of any spiders just needed to call out "kitty, kitty"!
Lovely lizards, tho..

I'll have to do some research on these critters. I've seen them around as long as I can remember but never knew what they are.

I have a blue-tailed skink living under a raised flower plant on my deck. One night I spied something by the door out onto the deck and low and behold it was the skink. Guess he wanted to visit my living room and couldn't find his way out. Opened the deck door and out he scooted. We live in the woods and have lots of cirtters that come around - coons, possums, fox (grey and red), skunks, deer (by the dozens), squirrels, birds of all different kinds, post lizards, snakes (mostly king and blue racers - one lives in the attic), mice, wood rats, and assorted other things that I am sure I will not see too often.

Just this morning I found this guy basking on my soaker hose between the Brugmansia, probably waiting for breakfast to walk/fly by.

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