Post #2279352

2026-04-18 03:27 UTC

#LizardReport A new little spiny lizard showed up on the low wall out front this morning. I was able to lure it pretty close with mealworms. I do the little whistle thing as soon as I meet new lizards and start taming them, so they learn to associate whistling with food. But, Stubby was on the other side of the walkway, heard me whistling and went racing past along the wall and chased the new one off. Bad Stubby. She defended her turf against the new little guy all afternoon. Little brat. Stubby is the one in the foreground and the new lizard is the one in the back in the pic. These, like Bill and Cutie (annd Harriet RIP) are Sceloporus magister, common desert spiny lizards. #Lizard #Lizards. #LizardSoapOpera

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@Mikal@sfba.social 2026-04-18 03:35

Bill now often can be found chilling on this rock just outside the back fence in the morning. Such a handsome boy. Cutie sometimes hangs out there too. I've been doing a bunch of work, part of the #RatShitRemodel, up in the nasty attic, so I have been in a white suit with a hat and respirator much of the last couple of days. As an experiment, I walked up to the low wall in the backyard where Cutie hangs out. There's no way she could have recognized me from any other person other than I did say "hi cutie." She didn't immediately run away, so this suggests to me that she's now associating all bipedal hominids with lack of danger and source of food, even if we look like ghosts. #LizardReport

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