Common Lizard

Fractal Top Member Posts: 1,859	Common Lizard Mar 29, 2011 12:00:05 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Fractal on Mar 29, 2011 12:00:05 GMT A Common Lizard sunning in the garden at work.
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Cherry Global Moderator Posts: 17,968	Common Lizard Mar 29, 2011 16:02:02 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cherry on Mar 29, 2011 16:02:02 GMT I used to see a lot of lizards and adders too in Galloway, but I see neither here. This is probably due to the intensive farming round about.

seaburn Top Member Posts: 2,598	Common Lizard Mar 29, 2011 16:39:15 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by seaburn on Mar 29, 2011 16:39:15 GMT what a lovely animal.

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Common Lizard Mar 29, 2011 18:24:19 GMT

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Note how in the first shot the tail is a different colour to the body. Must have lost it's original tail escaping from the jaws/beak of something...

It is a lovely animal Sb and not one I had really given much thought to until I saw this one today. Quite rare or at best locally common. So alert, I loved the way it cocked its head to look at me. :-)

wildlifefriendly Guest	Common Lizard Mar 29, 2011 18:45:01 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by wildlifefriendly on Mar 29, 2011 18:45:01 GMT You are lucky, we don't get lizards down here. I've had an odd glimpse of one up on the moors but they don't hang around to have their photo taken.

Cherry Global Moderator Posts: 17,968	Common Lizard Mar 29, 2011 19:13:38 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cherry on Mar 29, 2011 19:13:38 GMT Could be worth it as you have a choice SN.

Geranium Top Member Posts: 13,081	Common Lizard Mar 29, 2011 20:25:45 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Geranium on Mar 29, 2011 20:25:45 GMT We get slow worms and grass snakes, but no lizards. How interesting that they prefer the Northern climes!

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Common Lizard Mar 29, 2011 21:17:58 GMT

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I used to have a 'pet' eyed lizard as a teenager. It was found wandering at the local docks. the loca vet reckoned it was one of the spanish subspecies. I looked after it for about 5 yrs. I accidentally caught its tail and it 'threw' it off. Totally mesmerising, it thrashed around for a good 30 mins. the lizard hid in its vivarium for hours. It became very tame and would walk onto my hand . Its tail did grow back but as you observed it was a different colour to the rest of its body.

Geranium Top Member Posts: 13,081	Common Lizard Mar 29, 2011 21:46:52 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Geranium on Mar 29, 2011 21:46:52 GMT I think I'll stick to a Labrador as my pet, thanks all the same.

grindle Top Member Tamar Valley Posts: 19,745	Common Lizard Mar 30, 2011 4:53:02 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by grindle on Mar 30, 2011 4:53:02 GMT it was good that you managed to get some pictures of it Steve

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Common Lizard Mar 30, 2011 8:13:42 GMT

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Blue tongue lizards make good pets for children in Victoria. They are fed on tomatoes among other things, so they have interesting colour in their defacation. I was frightened of most reptiles as I lived in the country and was taught to be wary.

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Common Lizard Mar 16, 2017 11:28:37 GMT grindle and SueA like this

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When I did a walk up to the head of the College Valley last year, we headed up to the spectacular Three Sisters Waterfall. Nearby, amazingly we found this rather sluggish Common Lizard. I put it back of course.

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Fractal Top Member Posts: 1,859	Common Lizard Mar 17, 2017 18:03:44 GMT SueA likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Fractal on Mar 17, 2017 18:03:44 GMT I've reinstated the first images from the post that were missing

SueA Global Moderator Posts: 17,912	Common Lizard Mar 17, 2017 20:44:28 GMT Fractal likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by SueA on Mar 17, 2017 20:44:28 GMT I think they must have faded away before after 6 years Fractal!

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Common Lizard Mar 22, 2017 16:48:20 GMT

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News update. As I'm on Twitter, I'd posted the pictures of the Lizard (first ones at head of post) and a Lizard expert commented telling me he said it looked more like a Common Wall Lizard which isn't native to the UK. I told him there was a pet shop nearby (at least at the time). It looks as though it was an escapee then.

The lizard up by the waterfall is our native Common though

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