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Skinks !!!! A few pics....
William81
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I enjoy this little critters roaming around our place...two different types on the back porch yesterday....
A five lined and a Bullhead I believe (Correct me if I am wrong HeDog !!!)
A five lined and a Bullhead I believe (Correct me if I am wrong HeDog !!!)
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I hate them!
I find them very rarely when I bust into old downed rotten logs and use them for fish bait.
When I lived briefly in Texas, seeing lizards running all over the place was very cool for one who never saw them before. The scorpions in the bathroom and all the rattle snakes made the place a bit less favored though!
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
Sometimes their glass tail will break off and wiggle so as the main body can get away from a predator. the can grow new tails.
But I still enjoy all your pictures, so please continue !!
Only problem is the kingsnakes that prey on them. Kingsnakes are captured and relocated, not killed.
Yea, it seemed like just about EVERYTHING down there was non-native, both plants and animals. Aside from the lizards, the trees were really neat. A lot of tropical hardwoods of some sort. We had a very large one in our yard that was knocked down by a hurricane in 2017. Contractor cut it down to the ground but left the stump, and by the time we left in 2019, it had grown back out of the stump and was about 30 ft tall already. Crazy. Also, the fishing was fun - lots of Peacock Bass, Mayan Cichlids, etc.!
Interested place to live for a couple of years....but wouldn't want to be there permanently.
Yep , snakes with legs ! Funny thing , snakes don’t bother me . Have caught/handled hundreds of the snakes , no problem . Lizards etc nope I ain’t doing that
Used to live in Miami Frogdog. Before that lived in El Paso, TX. Used to catch lizards and snakes in the desert and sell them to the local pet store.
We would have killed each other to catch the last three on your list. (No iguanas out West though.) Kept us in burger (Whataburger) money. Good times. Late 60's.
Wow, that would be a fun way to make pocket money!
My girls would put leashes on them, take them for walks, and put Barbie clothes on some of them. It was ridiculous....and hilarious.
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Thought at first it was a Mountain boomer (collared Lizard) or some exotic that had escaped captivity but closer inspection I seen it was a Skink.
Thing was approximately 8-10 inches long and huge body.
I chased him away because I have a cat that like to kill and eat small skinks and lizards.
It could really move and run fast.
It had the appearance of the one in this picture.
https://www.reptilefact.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Five-Lined-Skink-Care.jpg
We have these guys that hang around. Drive the dogs nuts.
I also noticed that the trim board at the top of the bricks is not sealed.
I sealed mine awhile back and also had some small holes in the concrete between the bricks.
Sealing these areas (with caulk of the proper color) really reduced the number of small insects that were getting inside the House.
The Mountain Boomer lizards (the Ok state lizard) are on the way out in my neck of the woods. Seem to be going the same way the Quail and Road Runners went. They were really thick about 20 years ago, I seldom even see a Boomer, Road Runner now days. Quail have completely evaporated.
Maybe Al Gore will help restore them???
Photo is a couple years old. We sealed the boards our first summer there. It does cut down on the bugs for sure.
WM, the more I look at that photo, the more I think I have misidentified the lower animal. I believe both are 5 lined skinks. The lower one being an older male. I have never seen an individual like that, but it retains a muted version of the stripes of the other. The male great plains skink has the red/orange head, but the color pattern is dark stippling on the rear margins of the scales resulting in a "chain mail" effect.
Keep those photos coming, you are seeing things I never did in 32 years of living around there.
I remember growing up south of Lynchburg, and we had a lot of the blue-tailed skinks that would run around on the chimney and the bricks of the house. My mom HATED them. She had an old lever-action Daisy air rifle, and would shoot them off of the side of the chimney. Not exactly safe use of a BB gun, but I never remember her missing - one shot, one kill. Made me mad, though, because I really liked having them around to catch.