Plague Of Babies

[den]

Last night, after the stress of the day, I checked the live mousetrap and discovered it had caught a mouse and this:



A baby blue tongue! There is no way of opening the trap without releasing the mouse, so I had to let it go. "And don't come back!" I shouted after it as it fled under the fence into the neighbour's yard. I fed the little lizard some lettuce and let it go in the garden away from the bird seeds.

This morning I packed up Polly's bedding near the back door, and something rolled out:



Another baby blue toungue! At first I thought they were the same one, but comparing the stripes shows they are different babies. Siblings, certainly.

Woo hoo, as the saying goes. And Squee as well.

Comments

[beki.livejournal.com]

So you are trying to tell us Polly has been making time with a blue tongue? For shame!! ;)

Cute little thing tho, innit?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Blue-tongues are always cute, except when they clamp down on your finger.

[beki.livejournal.com]

That's just because your fingers look like lunch. It may help to get rid of the diner sign, and that little menu, and the waitress, and... ;)

[eveforward.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful! It looks like an expensive enamelled brooch or something. And what dear little footies!

[kayshapero]

Aww.. Cute skinklets.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Looks like the Peewee Mafia is bringing in Lounge Lizards for entertainment!;)

[tigermorph.livejournal.com]

oh dang....you beat me to it!

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[jamesb]

The joy of lizards. I spent some time tonight in an unsuccessful attempt to get a gecko out of the dishwasher. I will need to find a suitable herding stick and have another go at it. I need to do a load of dishes tonight and I really don't want to make gecko soup in the process.

[redfishie.livejournal.com]

that is just too cute.

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

Beautiful little creatures! I hadn't realized they were so colorful.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

This is one colour variation found in this area. The other variation is bands of light and dark greys. A little west of here the lizards have sand/red earth bands. Eastwards they are midnight blue with yellow bands. On the south coast they are black with white blotches. All the same species, just regional variations. Very pretty lizards.

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

That's like this little guy here I keep trying to identify. He looks like our standard run-of-the-mill lizards except he's bright neon blue with two yellow pinstripes down the sides. Fast little bugger! Someone told me it might be a blue tailed skink but they're not supposed to live here.