When you go out in the garden........

[Kobione]

When you go out in the garden..........with a pair of clippers in your hand to prune and tidy one of the lavender bushes, and then you spot this:

 

 

 

just sunning himself on the top of the bush!  This is obviously from behind him, but I was able to move round and get this:

 

 

He is a quite young bearded dragon, only 7 or 8 inches long, but quite sturdy. I did get a few more 'record shots' then he took off at great speed into our shade house. We think he lives there, as you often hear a rustle under the plant leaves.

 

We love seeing these things around, and seen close up they are fascinating and beautiful

 

 

[annie]

bearded dragons in your garden....are you sure you don't live in a zoo kobione? great shots, they do move fast don't they. i love the second shot. 

 

we do have very small lizards here....common and the sand (the sand lizard being found only very far down southern areas).....

[NannyFerret]

He's lovely and that second shot shows him off well.

My niece has a Bearded Dragon, but I have only seen photo's of him/her as they don't live near to us, but it's so nice to see them in their natural habitat.

Is there a way that you can tell the males from the females? as I'm not sure if my niece has found out what hers is yet as she said it was hard to tell.

[JohnP]

I like the second shot... I'm trying to think who he reminds me of...

[Heather]

oh hes such a cutie ! its lovely to see these in their actual habitat rather than in a glass tank

[fuzzyedges]

Second shot for me

Keep them coming Kobione I love to see the (to me) weird and wonderful animals of other places

 

We have bearded dragons over here but they seem to hold down doctor recptionists jobs

[Kobione]

 its lovely to see these in their actual habitat rather than in a glass tank

 

Heather we are so lucky, but we always have the opinion that we live in THEIR land, not the other way round!

 

We have about 20 species of lizard in this area, and they are fascinating. Smaller skinks move around me in the garden all the time, so, yes, Annie, it is a bit like living in a zoo!

 

This was our most exciting 'lizard moment', taken early November last year, but I didn't put them on here, because the quality was not great. I walked through to the kitchen, looked out of the window to check out the bird table, (as we do, about 200 times a day), to see what was there, and noticed the magpies were acting a bit 'wary', then saw this, and, of course, all you can do is grab the camera and try to get 'record shots':

 

 

 

 

 

This is a Gould's , or Sand Goanna, about 4 feet long. Described as widespread but uncommon, very wary, and difficult to approach. He was just checking out the seed on the floor, but 'froze' under the little hedge when he spotted us.

 

We got quite a few grab shots, and then, after he went further under the hedge, I was able to work my way round, very slowly, to the other side and got this one:

 

 

The colouring and skin markings are just lovely!! After this I went back inside and he just wandered off across the block. This is only the second time we have seen one of these in the open, and it was GREAT!! Fuzzy, and others, enjoy this one

[NannyFerret]

He's a big un!

It must be amazing to see these lovely creatures out in the wild..

Thanks for sharing. It's good to be able to learn about these things as well as see the pics of them.

My brother lives in France and he say's the same thing as you, that it was the animals etc. home before it was theirs and he respects this.