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Thanks :) I'm hoping to get some new pictures this year-last year the drought was so bad here in Texas I didn't see any animals really because all the ponds & canals near me were bone dry-I'm so glad we're out of that drought now :)
 
We get a lot of geckos in Phoenix, and while I was out gardening yesterday, I managed to catch nine of them. One of them bit me about three times, (which I did not get a picture of, unfortunately) and I've never had them do that before.

Here's one of them:
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i have captured few not sure if i got a pictuer my favorite is the copper head but what saddened me was my grandma make me kill it:( that is when i stopped showing ppl my captures. Also caught a gator garr with my hands once hehe
 
King snake

I saw this big guy last year, he just wondered across the driveway and into the woods, didn't even care that i was walking around him.
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I rescued a racer from a coworkers home today! She was "locked in her bedroom", and wouldn't come out to go to work until it was GONE. Fortunately, I was able to capture him without too much difficulty, and release him into a nice, wooded area a few miles away from her.

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As the weather begins to heat up here in Chandler, Arizona, we always get many fence lizards in our yard crawling all over our walls. They're very neat little guys, but are extremely fast. I've had success catching them simply by chasing them and catching them by hand as well as using a butterfly net. But this year, my 8 year-old sister and I decided to create a 'lizard trap' using a small tank with crickets in the bottom. It was a success! Here's our first capture:

I've always found with these lizards that once you catch them, they calm right down and will sit nicely still for photos. He was a good-sized one with a nice full tail:

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You can see why they're sometimes called 'blue-bellies':

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This one also had orange and green on his chin:

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I'm fairly certain these are of the sceloporus genus, but does anyone know the full species name? Also, although I wouldn't ever try it (due to possible injury or pesticides), do you think a corn snake would eat one of these?
 
Wow, literally an hour after I released that lizard, three more were in the trap! My neighbor's two kids and my little sister came over to hold them and release them. Do you think tagging them with a dot of colored Sharpie would be harmful to them? I'd be interested to see if we keep catching the same ones.

Starting to run low on cricket bait, though... :p
 
We have TONS of garters!
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We get tadpoled/frogs as well. Couldn't tell you the species, I just call them "pickles" cause that's what they look like.
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I did find a different species of toad once, SO TINY
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And we have tons of red backed salamanders!
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Outcast said:
Those lizards look a lot like Urosaurus ornatus, Ornate Tree Lizard. We have those around here.
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Upon looking it up, I think you're correct. Someone had told me that they were sceloporus lizards, but none of the sources I read mentioned much about them living in the southwest. Thank you!
 
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