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

[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.