Roseate Skimmer Dragonfly — Image by kenne
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Roseate Skimmer Dragonfly 3 comments
Don’t Let The Heat Get To You 2 comments
I try not to spend much time in Sabino Canyon at this time of the year because of the triple-digit temperature days. Instead, I go for neighborhood walks early in the morning. However, this morning I decided to go on one of Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists (SCVN) scheduled Lizard Walks. (I will post images in a later posting.)
I had planned on spending no more than two hours on the walk, which started at 8:00 a.m. As it neared 10:00 a.m., I left the group and started walking Bear Canyon Trail back to the Visitor Center, pacing myself and drinking and staying hydrated. Soon, I came across a Pima County Sheriff and EMS personnel. They were tending to a middle-aged woman who had a heatstroke. Sadly, this happens more often than it should.
As I came up to the sheriff’s deputy, he asked me if I was alright. I assume this twenty-something deputy took one look at this sweaty 83-year-old man and wanted to know if I was alright, which was nice of him. I replied I may not look like it but that I was fine and moved on.
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A Colorful Desert Lizard 2 comments
Eastern Collared Lizard — Image by kenne
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Regal Horned Lizards Blend In 1 comment
Regal Crown Lizard on Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne
Like a lot of lizards, the Regal Crown Lizard does an excellent job blending into its terrine —
note the colors of the lizard.
— kenne
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Regal Horned Lizard 2 comments
Regal Horned Lizard — Image by kenne
Not a horny toad
But a regal-horned lizard
By another name.
— kenne
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At Home On The Patio Olive Tree 3 comments
Ornate Tree Lizard At Home On The Patio Olive Tree
If it doesn’t move
It’s not easy to see it
It knows how to blend.
— kenne
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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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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 (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 — 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
