Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 17, 2017 22:22:42 GMT -5
Zebra Tails are beautiful! I also love the fringe toed lizards and Dips from the so. Cal deserts....Mel
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2017 20:53:25 GMT -5
Photos taken yesterday at Mountain Palm Spring yesterday in Anza Borrego Desert.
Zebra-tailed lizard. Fast lizards! This about the only one I saw, or was close enough to take a pic.
Thatzzit.
Super cool. Only side blotch and urosaurus active in the Mojave. A couple weeks at most and i will have all that cool shit too. Hoping for leopard lizards!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Mar 19, 2017 13:46:53 GMT -5
Didn't see it when I took the pic, but I think there is another lizard on the crest of the hill on the left side.
Probably a desert iguana, or "dip," as Mel calls them. We went out to Painted Gorge (east of the town of Ocotillo) several weeks ago. Saw several LARGE iguanas there, and lots of tail and belly tracks around holes in loose sand. Didn't even think to take any photos of the critters or the tracks - DOH! Guess I just had rocks on my mind. Next time.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2017 13:51:14 GMT -5
Yeah science crowd like to call them "Dip". Real herpers call them DI. That looks to me, like a chuckwalla. But, it's far. DI are usually on the rocks. Neither in the Mojave yet.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Mar 19, 2017 14:04:19 GMT -5
He does sorta look like a chuck, hard to tell. Have found them out in Painted Gorge, maybe five years ago. It was 93 degrees out, but had some high clouds, so the sun wasn't too intense.
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 19, 2017 15:23:09 GMT -5
Odd but in all my desert roamings I've only seen chucks close up twice, once at Newberry Springs just south of the T-eggs beds and once at Palm Springs. Must be cause I'm always looking for rocks. Dips, I've seen all over the place. Lots at Palm Springs and Desert Center and even a few at Lavic, Yermo and other Mojave Rock hunting sites. My favorite lizards out there are the giant Scelops like S. Orcutti and S. magister. On a college trip I collected the largest magister I've ever seen down on the Colorado Desert. Monster was almost chuckwalla sized. Largest Scelop I've ever seen. Man that one blew me away. Back when I used to drink, ( Didn't we all in college *L*) our favorite fun was chasing Fringe-Toed lizards in the dunes east of Palm Springs while drunk. Lizards usually won the chase but what fun!
Our Texas Spiny Lizards are pretty, especially the S.poinsetti that abound at Enchanted Rock. They like granite country so we don't get that species here on the ranch. Only get S.olivaceus and S.undulatus here....Mel
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Post by beefjello on Mar 19, 2017 17:49:22 GMT -5
Lil box turtle I found near Las Cruces 10 years ago
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Post by rockpickerforever on Mar 20, 2017 9:19:08 GMT -5
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 20, 2017 9:29:12 GMT -5
I didn't realize that there were small iguanas like that. I remember seeing some really big ones on some rocks near the ocean when visiting my parents' place in Florida.
We have two types of lizards in Michigan. I thought there was one kind until I just looked it up. We have a five lined skink and a six lined racer. As a child, I was visiting my older sister in Marquette and we saw a lot of skinks. A few years ago, my father in law saw one in my garden. I was standing right there, but facing the other way when he saw it, so I missed it. I thought he had seen a salamander, but he clearly informed me that he knew the difference between a salamander and a lizard.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 18:42:17 GMT -5
Dozens of iguana species abound. Even a couple in Madagascar! Ours is common and cool!
Soon I will find a rosy boa and blow your mind with boa constrictor in California!
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Post by Erich on Mar 20, 2017 20:28:14 GMT -5
This fellow was hanging out catching some rays last week on the dog's kennel in the backyard.
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 21, 2017 7:27:41 GMT -5
Man, that is so cool! I wish we had wild iguanas round here.....Mel
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 21, 2017 12:08:17 GMT -5
I didn't post these before, until I reread the OP and saw that turtle and frog pics were welcome also.
By the way, you don't want me in your foursome. I spend less time golfing and more time looking for critters.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 21, 2017 15:35:16 GMT -5
That's a big snapper. I like to stick a branch in front of them and watch them snap it in half.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Mar 21, 2017 17:40:37 GMT -5
Dozens of iguana species abound. Even a couple in Madagascar! Ours is common and cool! Soon I will find a rosy boa and blow your mind with boa constrictor in California!
You posted a thread on the boas of CA a while back -The Boa Constrictors of the United States You must've forgot
We don't get those big colorful iguanas here, but we do have some smaller lizards that are really pretty during breeding season.
Male fence lizard, Mission Trails Regional Park, San Diego
Same location, maybe a granite spiny lizard? In shade of guardrail along road through park.
And this picture not taken locally, although you can find these in San Diego. I have seen them!
A collared lizard.
Photo taken at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (per-digital era) and scanned.
The Museum's website has some info on them - Collared Lizard Fact Sheet
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 21, 2017 19:00:15 GMT -5
Just got back from a native plant buying trip to Medina with the wife. She's putting in some "grow boats", big above ground planting beds for a new butterfly garden. We don't have a lot of dirt on our rocky hillside. The nursery was crawling with anoles! Asked the owner if I could come by and collect a few to introduce into my own gardens. Turns out he hates them and said I could have all I could catch. So next trip will be plants and lizards. Hope to have a yard population to join our geckos in a few years.
Beautiful Spiny Lizard rockpicker! We saw a bunch of collared lizards while collecting wood at the Milky Rch in AZ. Caught a couple to take home and one bit a hunk off my finger. Those have powerful jaws like a tiny T-rex. Hard to keep though, even in the Ojai valley where it is very hot....Mel
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 13:24:38 GMT -5
Yes, Jean, those both are orcutti.
Granite Spiny. Boy and girl.
My favourite spiny. Any purple lizard is a win in my house!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 13:26:59 GMT -5
I didn't post these before, until I reread the OP and saw that turtle and frog pics were welcome also.
By the way, you don't want me in your foursome. I spend less time golfing and more time looking for critters. When i started this thread, turtles were reptiles! Now they are Class Testudinae. Their own class of animal. Anyways it's my thread and you can post any cold blooded vertabrate you want! Thanks for joining in!
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Post by Erich on Mar 23, 2017 4:27:55 GMT -5
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Post by Erich on Mar 23, 2017 4:44:21 GMT -5
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