The action around here is hard to keep up with. Last night I took a night walk on Child’s Mountain looking for snakes and whatever else might turn up. I got one Western Lyresnake and saw several Poorwills. This morning, I headed for Lake Ajo to check out the birds. I got a Willet and a Snowy Plover, both very good birds for this area. To top it all off, when I got back to the camper, I became aware of something on my shoulder, when I reached for it, whatever it was leaped off onto the floor. It was a small lizard, and I started to get suspicious. I herded it toward the door, and it climbed up on the screen. My camera with macro lens was in the truck, so I carefully snuck by the lizard, got the camera and took some photos. Proof of what it was, a Long-tailed Brush Lizard. I’ve been looking for one of these for a long time. I thought I had one once in Alamo Canyon years ago but was never quite sure about that one. This one is a positive ID. So, where did it come from? I could have picked it up this morning while birding around Lake Ajo, but it would have to been on my back while I went to the grocery store, got water and drove back. It could have already been in the truck from some previous day, and it just decided to climb onto me. Or had it somehow got into the camper and climbed onto me? I guess I will never know.
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4 replies on “A Lifer Herp and a Mystery”
Can’t get luckier than having your target species land on your shoulder! Great images
It’s funny how the lizard ‘dropped in’ on you.
That Lyresnake is very pretty.
So, in a few billion years M98 will smash into the Milky Way?
I don’t know that M98 will encounter the Milky Way Galaxy, but the Andromeda Galaxy is predicted to do that in 4 or 5 billion years (and it is only 2.5 million light years away).
Nice finds!