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Placerita Canyon is an east-west running canyon featuring cool, shaded oak groves, a willow and sycamore-lined seasonal stream and numerous other interesting plant and animal.This natural area park is situated in the San Gabriel Mountains adjoining the Angeles National Forest and offers north and south facing foothills.
Western Fence Lizard - at the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden, they were like California's version of squirrels. They were everywhere! Since the adult has a brilliant blue abdomen, they're also know as a Blue Belly.
Huntington Beach, California is located in the Pacific Flyway for migrating birds. This makes it an ideal place to bird watch. Two places open to the public are Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve wetlands and Library Huntington Central Park, a birders' delight all year long and especially during the April/May and September/October migrations. 228 species of birds have been spotted in the Park, to date, offering birders an opportunity to see locals as well as discover new species. Don't be surprised to see an occasional vagrant exotic, as well.Favorite bird watching throughout the park includes owls sometimes perched in Eucalyptus trees.
I just could not get close to the birds at Thursley today,but the Lizards were quite happy to be photographed while basking in the sun. Taken with my Sigma 50-500mm Macro lens !!
So this is what I witnessed from my breakfast table while eating. Apparently when lizards do the business - - it must nearly kill them and drain the life (and color) out of them! The picture on the right looks like they are near dead and shriveled up. Later, I saw the green anole and his color had returned.
I attempted to research this online but did not find any sort of documentation on this crazy occurrence…DOES ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW??
This is horned lizard scat with a parasitic nematode in it. The nematode lives in the lizard's intestines. Instead of laying eggs, a female full of eggs exits with the scat, dries up, and dies. An ant finds the nematode and takes it to the nest. Young ants are fed the nematode and the eggs hatch inside the ants. If an ant that has a larval nematode in it gets eaten by a horned lizard, then the nematode breaks out of the ant and infects the horned lizard, completing its bizarre journey!