Stealth Lizard

**hybrid** · 03-18-2010, 12:39 PM

Thought I'd share. I had the odd sensation of being watched on a walk around the place the other day...

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he's lucky I wasn't hungry and the resourceful kind or it'd be kentucky fried dragon time

no, all native reptiles are protected (people in tradtional areas are pretty well tolerated to hunt up a free feed once in a while though). Toss over hot coals and hoe in! Lizard is very greasy, very rich and is known for giving first timers a case of bush belly

They don't taste like chicken. Just lizard

Nice big healthy fella,a Bearded Dragon... would be 75cm nose to tail (which is mostly around the other side of the tree). The spikes are not as spiky as they look. They eat bugs, king crickets, snails, little frogs etc. Large mature ones are a good sign you have a decent ecosystem around you.

Pic is from about a foot away from him as he glared at me for disturbing his afternoon sunbake.

**hybrid** · 03-18-2010, 12:45 PM

Lil more detail.

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And no, I don't wear those Steve Irwin shirts :P

**Winnie** · 03-18-2010, 01:23 PM

Now that's the sort of chap to have in your garden, munching on all those freeloading bugs!
Nothing quite so exotic over here, but I do have some Sand Lizards, a resident Hedgehog and bats in the loft!

**crashdive123** · 03-18-2010, 01:56 PM

Great pic. Thanks for letting us have a look.

**your_comforting_company** · 03-18-2010, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by Winnie

.. bats in the loft!

snakes in the hair too? maybe you are a little dolly

Cool Lizard. I like setting up lizard sanctuaries around the house in the garden and flower beds, but that one might need a condo! The biodegradable plant pots work well for housing toads and lizards, and sometimes spiders too!

**finallyME** · 03-18-2010, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by hybrid

And no, I don't wear those Steve Irwin shirts :P

Why not?

Just kidding.

**Rick** · 03-18-2010, 04:32 PM

Those are great pics. Thanks. He's a great looking guy. Not many lizards around here. Unless you count the ones in the lounge.

**Winnie** · 03-18-2010, 06:29 PM

The Bats have just started coming out of hibernation, I saw a couple the other night. One of the joys of living in an old house.... you get to share it with all manner of birds and beasts and that doesn't include Bobcat and the girls.

**hybrid** · 03-18-2010, 11:57 PM

We have a small colony of microbats (sorry, you know what I mean).. they're tiny, at night you see them zipping past after moths etc, they just look like large moths themselves at that speed. No hedgehogs, somehow we ended up with red deer, foxes, pheasants but noone though to send us some hedgehogs from the old country

Spare us a couple? Will cover postage

YCC,some people in more urban areas build reptile habitat... usually logs, ponds, ferns etc and go non-chemical in the yard. Good for blue tongue lizards and green frogs etc. This big fella would have himself a nice log somewhere, people have found a log with a lizard at one end and a possum at the other. Very diplomatic!

If I wore a shirt like that I'd look like a telephone pole :P Which biodegradable pots do you mean, the pressed coir ones or those starch ones? Certainly plenty of spiders living in my pot pile, I must have killed 200 redbacks in the last three months.

Nice to have critters around though, we have a "don't bother us, we won't bother you" approach. Even the spiders have free range unless they start turning up too close to or inside the house... don't want our little girl to go picking something up and getting chomped on. Leaving things be also means in the event of shortages they will be that much easier to bop on the head