Roadrunner in Olive Tree
Almost Blown Off the Limb by Strong Gust of Wind — Images by kenne
Roadrunner on limb
Checking out the olive tree —
Ornate tree lizards.
Looking all around
A windy day in the tree
Safer on the ground
— kenne
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Roadrunner In Olive Tree Leave a comment
In The Desert, Only Golfers Walk On Grass 1 comment
Desert Golf Course — Image by kenne
Lizard don’t golf
Does anyone here remember
heat dancing off the sand
living land
the shifting dunes of september
now entombed in golf course green
so obscene
travelers came to see desert sights
searching for exotic places
empty spaces
stayed for warm days, star filled nights
building homes in paradise
closed eyes
banished the desert from its place
visitors need a permit to pass
keep off grass
Made a playground from the empty space
golfs a game anyone may play
they say
claiming a course is better than the desert waste
but the lizards who paid
never played
— Luann Pfost
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Zebra-Tailed Lizard Leave a comment
Zebra-Tailed Lizard (Callisaurus draconoides) — Image by kenne
Zebra-tailed lizards are the fastest lizards in the desert. They have an odd habit of curling their tail
over their back, thus revealing the striping, and then waving it slowly from side to side. The most widely
accepted theory is that this lulls their predators like a hypnotist’s watch, which prevents them from reacting
quickly when the zebra-tailed lizard suddently zips away. Source: wildherps.com
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Greater Earless Lizard Sunning On Rock Leave a comment
Greater Earless Lizard Sunning On Rock — Images by kenne
“Mad dogs and Englishmen,” said British playwright Noel Coward in his famous ditty of 1932, “go out in the midday sun.”
So, too, he might have added, does the greater earless lizard, which seems to relish the midday sun of mid-summer
in the rocky, sandy desert terrain of the northern Chihuahuan and northeastern Sonoran Deserts.
— Source: desertusa.com/
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Desert Spiny Lizard Leave a comment
Desert Spiny Lizard, Sweetwater Wetlands Park, Tucson, Arizona — Image by kenne
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Desert Spiny Lizard 1 comment
Desert Spiny Lizard — Image by kenne
We have been experiencing some warmer spring weather here in the desert,
so more lizards are on the move
— kenne
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Eastern Collared Lizard 1 comment
Eastern Collared Lizard — Image by kenne
With fall in the air,
lizards will be out of sight
only to be seen on a rock
in the desert sunlight —
it’s the natural
order of things.
— kenne
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Gila Monster Close-up 1 comment
Gila Monster Close-up — Image by kenneturner.com
“Gila monsters have beaded scales in colorful patterns. Gila monsters are
the largest lizards native to the United States. They get their name from
Arizona’s Gila River basin, where they were first discovered.
Gila monsters are also one of only two venomous lizards in the world.”
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I Spotted An Old Friend 1 comment
Eastern Collared Lizard — Images by kenne
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Collared Lizard 1 comment
Eastern Collared Lizard (April 2011) — Image by kenne
Sunning on a rock
Most colorful of lizards
Pose for me, baby.
— kenne
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Lizard Walk In Sabino Canyon 1 comment
The last Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalist (SCVN) Lizard took place on October 12th.
It was a perfect fall morning for a lizard walk. However,
some lizards may have not agreed since the number of sightings were low.
Still, it was a beautiful morning for a nature walk.
Naturalists Tom Skinner and Fred Heath welcome the walkers in front of the Sabino Canyon Visitor Center.
Everyone gathers near lizard spotter off the trail,
a common side-blotched lizard.
Naturalists Bill and Lousie Kaufman share information on the common side-bloched lizard.
— Images by kenne
In the parched path I have seen the good lizard (one drop of crocodile) meditating. With his green frock-coat of an abbot of the devil, his correct bearing and his stiff collar, he has the sad air of an old professor. Those faded eyes of a broken artist, how they watch the afternoon in dismay! -- from "The Old Lizard" by Federic Garcia Lorca
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Mountain Spiny Lizard Leave a comment
Mountain Spiny Lizard or Yarrow’s Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii) — Image by kenne
The Mountain Spiny Lizard can be found in the southeastern portion of Arizona — in this image, the Santa Rita Mountains. They live in mountain areas of oak and pine forests above 5,000 feet in elevation. This one is more colorful than most I have seen — usually bland in color. Therefore, I had to photograph him.
— kenne
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“Two Lizards” Leave a comment
“Two Lizards” (Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum) — Images by kenne
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Another Sign Of Spring Leave a comment
Eastern Collared Lizard — Image by kenne
Another sign of spring in the desert are our reptile friends, most scurrying about making it difficult to photograph. But not the eastern collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris), who like to pose for you on a nearby rock.
Welcome back, my friend — it is spring time in the Sonoran desert.
kenne
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Here’s Looking At You Leave a comment
“Here’s Looking At You” — Image by kenne
Becoming is Superior to Being 