Posted: 6/2/2010 8:11:49 PM EDT
I saw this guy crawling along east of the Phoenix area. He was probably 10-12" long from nose to tail tip. Anyone have any ideas?
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No idea.
But here's a neat pic of a Collared Lizard (minus some of his tail) I managed to get while I was enroute to my desert shooting spot.... I spotted him about 30' off the forest service road, pulled off and slowly sneaked him to about 10' and used optical zoom on my Nikon (which I always have with me) to snap this pic. This guy was also about 10" long. 
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Don't get too close! 
http://www.lolepic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/lizard_finger_lol_epic.jpg  lulz.
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http://www.lolepic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/lizard_finger_lol_epic.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/103/295533652_84135ac0cf.jpg lulz. That's a green anole... and the bird. |
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They're great pics! I love reptiles, thanks for sharing! +1 Beautiful creatures- never seen pics of these before. I hadn't either, and then I was in the house that I was living in my last couple of weeks in AZ and they were crawling along the wall that surrounds the AC unit. |
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I saw this guy crawling along east of the Phoenix area. He was probably 10-12" long from nose to tail tip. Anyone have any ideas? http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk214/chacal87/Arizona/DSC_0011.jpg P.S. I saw no listing of opossum lizards... Male desert spiny lizard. |
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Hey guys here is a lizard my sister caught in Vegas. Her cat was trying to get it and they only kept it in the cage long enough to take pics then let it go back in the desert. I haven't done much research on lizards in my life but thread made me curious what it might be.
thanks for the help http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs509.ash1/30042_122334854458471_100000458712855_207455_3783528_n.jpg |
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Looks like the blue bellies we used to catch as a kid in California. They like to sun themselves on the cinder block walls of our trailer park. Yep, though the coloring on top looks a bit different than the ones I used to catch. God I haven't caught those stupid lizards in ages, makes me nostalgic to want to go catch a couple again. I still remember the first time I ever got to hold one and promptly gotten bit to hell by one. Was about 5-6 years old, my dad caught a BIG one about 6 inches long. Fucker bit me and drew blood. Ever since then I've been fascinated but cautious around them, though I'm several magnitudes of order larger than I was when I was 6 years old :) I think I'm tough enough to get a few bites from a blue belly. Seen some damned pretty coloring on ones that have been catching sun all day. Tops almost black, sides iridescent blue. Typical blue-belly- 
Strange thing was about 12-15 years ago I caught a lizard that was almost like a blue belly only had red on it's belly. I was in the eastern foot hills hills of Kern County and that little fucker was MEAN. When I cornered it and tried to get my hand next to it, damned thing charged me. Never seen another one since then. I didn't get any photographs of it unfortunately and I let it go quickly because knowing California and my luck, it was probably endangered. Checking around, it may have been a female collard lizard or a Long-nosed Leopard Lizard. Fun thing to do with lizards is hypnotize the little bastards. While you are holding them, flip them on their back. Open your hand so you've got them pinned with just your thumb between their front legs. Use one of the fingers of your free hand to gently stroke their sides from the front arm pit to the front of the rear leg. After a couple strokes you can see them go lax and they won't move as you relax your grip. If you are careful you can put them on the ground laying on their back and they will sit there for a couple minutes. Used to do it as a kid and see how many I could get lined up in a row at once. Then 2 years ago while at a driving school for my LE academy I did it again. During a break I caught one of the little bastards and within a minute had him laying there on his back to dumb founded cadets who said "Nuh uh" to my claim. Though I wouldn't try it on a gilamonster. You can do it with chickens too if you use a different technique :) |
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I saw this guy crawling along east of the Phoenix area. He was probably 10-12" long from nose to tail tip. Anyone have any ideas? http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk214/chacal87/Arizona/DSC_0011.jpg P.S. I saw no listing of opossum lizards... Male desert spiny lizard. He's right. It has the dorsal markings that the uniformis would not have, so a Sceloporus magister. |
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Man, if I could get a big pile of rocks for my back yard, I'd love to see if I could get 2-3 of these guys to stick around my house if I started them out small. Got plenty of ants and bugs around for them to eat I would think.
Temps are late in hitting 90s, usually those temps hit 3+ weeks ago. |
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Hey guys here is a lizard my sister caught in Vegas. Her cat was trying to get it and they only kept it in the cage long enough to take pics then let it go back in the desert. I haven't done much research on lizards in my life but thread made me curious what it might be. thanks for the help http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs509.ash1/30042_122334854458471_100000458712855_207455_3783528_n.jpg Looks like a Great Basin whiptail. |
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Hey guys here is a lizard my sister caught in Vegas. Her cat was trying to get it and they only kept it in the cage long enough to take pics then let it go back in the desert. I haven't done much research on lizards in my life but thread made me curious what it might be. thanks for the help http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs509.ash1/30042_122334854458471_100000458712855_207455_3783528_n.jpg Leopard lizard |
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Looks like the blue bellies we used to catch as a kid in California. They like to sun themselves on the cinder block walls of our trailer park. Yep, though the coloring on top looks a bit different than the ones I used to catch. God I haven't caught those stupid lizards in ages, makes me nostalgic to want to go catch a couple again. I still remember the first time I ever got to hold one and promptly gotten bit to hell by one. Was about 5-6 years old, my dad caught a BIG one about 6 inches long. Fucker bit me and drew blood. Ever since then I've been fascinated but cautious around them, though I'm several magnitudes of order larger than I was when I was 6 years old :) I think I'm tough enough to get a few bites from a blue belly. Seen some damned pretty coloring on ones that have been catching sun all day. Tops almost black, sides iridescent blue. Typical blue-belly- http://www.californiaherps.com/lizards/images/sooccidentalislfsac.jpg http://www.californiaherps.com/lizards/images/sagebrushfenceuscomppbriggs.jpg Strange thing was about 12-15 years ago I caught a lizard that was almost like a blue belly only had red on it's belly. I was in the eastern foot hills hills of Kern County and that little fucker was MEAN. When I cornered it and tried to get my hand next to it, damned thing charged me. Never seen another one since then. I didn't get any photographs of it unfortunately and I let it go quickly because knowing California and my luck, it was probably endangered. Checking around, it may have been a female collard lizard or a Long-nosed Leopard Lizard. Fun thing to do with lizards is hypnotize the little bastards. While you are holding them, flip them on their back. Open your hand so you've got them pinned with just your thumb between their front legs. Use one of the fingers of your free hand to gently stroke their sides from the front arm pit to the front of the rear leg. After a couple strokes you can see them go lax and they won't move as you relax your grip. If you are careful you can put them on the ground laying on their back and they will sit there for a couple minutes. Used to do it as a kid and see how many I could get lined up in a row at once. Then 2 years ago while at a driving school for my LE academy I did it again. During a break I caught one of the little bastards and within a minute had him laying there on his back to dumb founded cadets who said "Nuh uh" to my claim. Though I wouldn't try it on a gilamonster. You can do it with chickens too if you use a different technique :) Used to hold chickens by their feet, then spin them around till their heads popped, really gross now that I think about it, I've grown a little since then. |
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Looks like the blue bellies we used to catch as a kid in California. They like to sun themselves on the cinder block walls of our trailer park. Yep, though the coloring on top looks a bit different than the ones I used to catch. God I haven't caught those stupid lizards in ages, makes me nostalgic to want to go catch a couple again. I still remember the first time I ever got to hold one and promptly gotten bit to hell by one. Was about 5-6 years old, my dad caught a BIG one about 6 inches long. Fucker bit me and drew blood. Ever since then I've been fascinated but cautious around them, though I'm several magnitudes of order larger than I was when I was 6 years old :) I think I'm tough enough to get a few bites from a blue belly. Seen some damned pretty coloring on ones that have been catching sun all day. Tops almost black, sides iridescent blue. Typical blue-belly- http://www.californiaherps.com/lizards/images/sooccidentalislfsac.jpg http://www.californiaherps.com/lizards/images/sagebrushfenceuscomppbriggs.jpg Strange thing was about 12-15 years ago I caught a lizard that was almost like a blue belly only had red on it's belly. I was in the eastern foot hills hills of Kern County and that little fucker was MEAN. When I cornered it and tried to get my hand next to it, damned thing charged me. Never seen another one since then. I didn't get any photographs of it unfortunately and I let it go quickly because knowing California and my luck, it was probably endangered. Checking around, it may have been a female collard lizard or a Long-nosed Leopard Lizard. Fun thing to do with lizards is hypnotize the little bastards. While you are holding them, flip them on their back. Open your hand so you've got them pinned with just your thumb between their front legs. Use one of the fingers of your free hand to gently stroke their sides from the front arm pit to the front of the rear leg. After a couple strokes you can see them go lax and they won't move as you relax your grip. If you are careful you can put them on the ground laying on their back and they will sit there for a couple minutes. Used to do it as a kid and see how many I could get lined up in a row at once. Then 2 years ago while at a driving school for my LE academy I did it again. During a break I caught one of the little bastards and within a minute had him laying there on his back to dumb founded cadets who said "Nuh uh" to my claim. Though I wouldn't try it on a gilamonster. You can do it with chickens too if you use a different technique :) Oh man, that brings back memories! Yup, those are the little guys. I lived in the trailer park just ouside of CIM in Chino, California. Those lizards were everywhere. My buddy moved to Desert Shores in Salton Sea and they had aggressive lizards liek you described there. We used to hypnotize them too, small world man. |
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Looks like the blue bellies we used to catch as a kid in California. They like to sun themselves on the cinder block walls of our trailer park. Yep, though the coloring on top looks a bit different than the ones I used to catch. God I haven't caught those stupid lizards in ages, makes me nostalgic to want to go catch a couple again. I still remember the first time I ever got to hold one and promptly gotten bit to hell by one. Was about 5-6 years old, my dad caught a BIG one about 6 inches long. Fucker bit me and drew blood. Ever since then I've been fascinated but cautious around them, though I'm several magnitudes of order larger than I was when I was 6 years old :) I think I'm tough enough to get a few bites from a blue belly. Seen some damned pretty coloring on ones that have been catching sun all day. Tops almost black, sides iridescent blue. Typical blue-belly- http://www.californiaherps.com/lizards/images/sooccidentalislfsac.jpg http://www.californiaherps.com/lizards/images/sagebrushfenceuscomppbriggs.jpg Strange thing was about 12-15 years ago I caught a lizard that was almost like a blue belly only had red on it's belly. I was in the eastern foot hills hills of Kern County and that little fucker was MEAN. When I cornered it and tried to get my hand next to it, damned thing charged me. Never seen another one since then. I didn't get any photographs of it unfortunately and I let it go quickly because knowing California and my luck, it was probably endangered. Checking around, it may have been a female collard lizard or a Long-nosed Leopard Lizard. Fun thing to do with lizards is hypnotize the little bastards. While you are holding them, flip them on their back. Open your hand so you've got them pinned with just your thumb between their front legs. Use one of the fingers of your free hand to gently stroke their sides from the front arm pit to the front of the rear leg. After a couple strokes you can see them go lax and they won't move as you relax your grip. If you are careful you can put them on the ground laying on their back and they will sit there for a couple minutes. Used to do it as a kid and see how many I could get lined up in a row at once. Then 2 years ago while at a driving school for my LE academy I did it again. During a break I caught one of the little bastards and within a minute had him laying there on his back to dumb founded cadets who said "Nuh uh" to my claim. Though I wouldn't try it on a gilamonster. You can do it with chickens too if you use a different technique :) Used to hold chickens by their feet, then spin them around till their heads popped, really gross now that I think about it, I've grown a little since then. At Marauder 1987, a Special Forces A-team from Fort Campbell taught us how to hypnotize chickens. One guy would hold them on the ground, the other would draw a line from the chickens beak down into the dirt about 10 inches then repeat the process several times. The other guy would let go and then we'd put a stick across their neck, stand on it, and the other guy would pull the body. Pop, off comes the head. We made Chicken Soup in an ammo can over the fire. Good times! |