Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Our New Friend

On Sunday I was yet again planting flowers in the back yard when I heard Morgan screaming about a lizard. Now this is normal with Morgan chasing Anoles around our yard almost daily. This lizard seemed to be more exciting then the normal ones. She was screaming for me to come look. I reluctantly went. Well I surprised to see this huge lizard climbing on our wall. Jimmy had heard Morgan screaming and came out to see what the deal was. Jimmy is an expert "lizard wrangler" from growing up in the deserts of CA. He grabbed a bucket and slicker than snot, scooped it right up. We have come to find out he is a five-lined skink. He is pretty neat. His tail is fading from the bright blue. This is from being an older lizard. He is good to have near my garden since he eats bugs and the like. So we let him stay in the Girl's wildflower bed near the garden. He is probably almost the length of my foot, most being his tail. The only problem is now when I am out there I am looking all over so I don't step on him. Or per chance he jumps out of the grass and bites my ear off. Do you think I have a fear of lizards?

These are 2 of the many Anoles Morgan has caught. This weekend she decided they needed to spend the day in the old Hermit Crab house. She named them and all. It is easy to see the green lizard ontop of the container. The brown lizard is below the handled container, just to the left of the blue handle. They are getting used to her constant handling. After she catches them, they didn't put up any further resistance. We have officially dubbed Morgan the "Lizard Whisperer".

3 comments:

  1. We have those little green ones, too. The boys love those, and I think they are pretty neat. I can handle those so much better than those huge crickets they tend to catch... All those legs... eek.

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  2. We used to keep Anoles as pets...we had to buy ours...I'm glad we don't have them anymore but they were very interesting...I got tired of being the only one to feed/clean/water them and it became such a burden to keep live crickets around...

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  3. I actually remember catching lizards in the desert too! Especially horny toads...does Jimmy remember horny toads? All of the lizards in the desert were grey/brown...nothing as colorful and interesting...I actually used to try to walk mine on a leash made of yarn!

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