As I was playing solitaire or doing some other computer related thing yesterday I noticed movement along the inside window ledge...it was this little guy. Who knows how exactly he got inside and, actually, compared to others of his species he was pretty big. I caught him in a ziploc bag and then released him back out onto the rock. Note his blue tail. Very cool.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Lizard? Skink? Salamander...I don't think salamander
As I was playing solitaire or doing some other computer related thing yesterday I noticed movement along the inside window ledge...it was this little guy. Who knows how exactly he got inside and, actually, compared to others of his species he was pretty big. I caught him in a ziploc bag and then released him back out onto the rock. Note his blue tail. Very cool.
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I do believe that your lizard is the ubiquitous blue tailed lizard. Never tried this because I thought it unfair, but lizard lore has it that if the lizard is grabbed by some big scary predator, like your basic average five year old, the lizard's tail comes off and he/she lives to see another day. And the tail grows back.
Or so I am told.
Looks like a blue tailed skink. See http://www.repticzone.com/photogallery/viewphoto.php/31870/Skinks/Lizards/ I saw one today in northern NJ.
Let me try to shorten that skink link.
[url=www.repticzone.com/photogallery/viewphoto.php/31870/Skinks/Lizards/]skink[/url]
I saw a little guy like the second skink in the link climbing the house wall a few days back. I said hello and he scampered all small like away.
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