A very cold Fence Lizard

The past few days have been very chilly in Northern California. And about a week ago a section of our fence fell over. Leaving great big empty post holes.

This morning Saul found a very frigid fence lizard at the bottom of a steep sided and dark fence post hole. We brought him inside to warm him up, snapped a few pictures, and are releasing him now. Enjoy!

Soaking up some heat from a warm water bottle


This is so COOL!!


His colors became so much more blue after he warmed up


Look what I found!



Saul would like me to add this smilie in because it's really cool. We also like this one:

SaulsMom

Beautiful!! I love his belly! Saul looks very proud of him.

Nanci

I love these sceloperos (spelling?) lizards!
I spent most of my childhood chasing them through bushes.
Nice belly on that one too!

For me, they bring back wonderful memories of hiking/backpacking out west. Say Yosemite.

Nanci

Cool! Nice find. Very nicely marked lizard. The one I found a week or so ago (see thread "Herping in January") was dark blue on the bottom.

Nice lizard. I just got a fire skink toda..... cool little bugger you found