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Another picture from my trip to South Carolina, this is from King's Mountain.
While I'm weak with birds, I'm hopeless with lizards. I asked the ranger on duty and she was unable to help me with an ID on this guy.
Camera: Pentax K-5
Lens: Pentax 55-300 DAL
Exposure Time: 1/100 sec.
Aperture Value: f/5.8
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed Rating: 400
Male and female wall lizards are often found lying in physical contact throughout the mating season. This behaviour likely evolved in males to secure paternity of the female's clutch. It's function in females is less straightforward (e.g. deter male harassment from multiple males?) and needs further research.
Being on Guadeloupe we had many visits of this little fella and his friends. For some shots they seemed to enjoy being the model and held still long enough for a good photo.
This is my favorite out of quite a few to choose from.
Taken with Nikon D7100 plus Nikon 105mm 2.8 macro lens.
Pre historic looking reptile. So named because of it's ability to 'walk' on water. In fact it doesn't walk but runs extremely fast!
After not finding any in the area last year, I was relieved to discover a healthy couple of adult common lizards enjoying the sunshine at the Lead Mines this morning.
Bookham Commons
A good day!:
15+ Common Lizards of all sizes
3 large Slow Worms
5 Great Crested Newts
2 good sized Common Toads and some smaller ones
2 Common Frogs
1 Smooth Newt
1 baby Grass Snake
3 Commas, 1 Painted Lady, several Small Heaths
Violet Ground beetles, Southern Hawkers, Emperor Dragonflies, Willow Emerald Damselflies
And the biggest Bank Vole we have ever seen.