A rare winter appearance of the scaly sausage. He came out of his hide and was active for about half an hour before heading back to bed shortly after his lamps turned off for the evening. I was pleased to see that he looks to be in good condition. It'll probably still be another month or so before he really comes out of brumation and his activity levels return to normal.

Here's an alligator lizard from our patio. I wish the stick hadn't been in the way, but I didn't want to disturb my beautiful little friend.

Some people are startled by them because they look so much like a snake -- but I'm happy to see one because they eat snugs and snails.

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Thanks to winter brumation it had been a few weeks since I'd seen Jerry, and had no evidence from the temperature sensors that he's been out in that time either, so I lifted up his basking rock to check on him. He just gave me "what do you want?" look, so I lowered the rock again and let him be.

Having been rudely awoken he did come out from under his rock a few minutes later, but he just did a quick circuit of his enclosure to check all was in order before going back to bed.

saw a post about geckos and wanted to post this photo I took of tiny (then undescribed) day gecko species i found right outside my house but i can't seem to find it. here's a another I took while on a survey of the herpetofauna of that region 8 years back in 5 days from today.

i believe the common name and even the scientific name has changed but I know it as the Termite Hill Gecko (Hemidactylus triedrus) and it does get a lot more vividly coloured than this.

Nice to see this guy again now that I'm back home.

Now that it's winter he is spending most of the time sleeping, but is still coming out every now and then for a drink and a brief look around.

I saw this cutie when I was walking in from the store today at first, hanging around my front porch. Then when I was heading out again to handin some paperwork, I saw them again in/on this Animal crate I'm trying to let nature help me cleanup.

Geckos! Spotted loads of these tonight in Padova, hanging out near lights waiting for moths. iNaturalist reckons they are Moorish Geckos (Tarentola mauritanica). Quite large, by gecko standards.

Found this little #lizard fella charging its solar batteries right in the middle of the #running trail.

Lundi, 10h20, en direct du bac à semis, Jean-lézard se pose des questions sur ses choix de vie.

I got the scaly sausage out of his enclosure for a check up this evening. He is at least partially brumating (hibernating) now so I'm not seeing him out and about very often, but I did know that he shed his skin recently and I wanted to check that he got it all off. Just as well I did as, very unusually for him, he did have some stuck shed on one of his toes and the tip of his tail.

Doing all of this was made considerably more difficult by Jerry's very strong preference for draping himself across the back of my neck or perching precariously on top of my head instead of hanging out where I can see him properly.

Let me improve your Monday with lizards.

The hummingbird feeder attracts the green #anoles too.

The eastern water dragons have gone into winter brumation (kind of like hibernation but not sleeping), so I generally won't see them until spring.

But shelf dragon is back!
Last year we had one dragon live on a shelf in the lattice room/workshop. We've rebuilt the room since, but shelf dragon has returned and is back in a new spot.

First Front Range lizard of the year. Prairie lizard (Sceloporus consobrinus) enjoying some sunshine two days after heavy snowfall at Walker Ranch open space park near Boulder. #naturephotography #LizardsOfMastodon #herpetology #Colorado #naturalist