LVSteve
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So right now many of you are looking at your screen thinking, 'How do you recharge a lizard and why would you want to?' Fair question, so here we go. ***CLICK PICS FOR FULLSIZE***
Stepped out back on Wednesday morning to find this.
No big deal to see a Common Tree Lizard on a wall in Vegas, but on a chilly 38°F morning in December? Yeah, first time for me in 25+ years of living here. Our working theory is that he either got chased out of his winter digs by another critter, or had been shaken out of a nearby tree by the strong winds earlier in the week.
Note how dark it is, indicating it is cold and needs to pick up heat from the sun, ASAP. Trouble is, that piece of wall doesn't see the sun until about 1230, and the bottom part of the wall where the lizard was sitting does not warm up very well as the heat gets sunk into the ground.
I'm a believer in letting nature take its course, so I left him/her there and went back later to see if it had moved. As you can see, signs of life!
Better color, but still looking chilly. I figured it would move to a hidey hole once the sun moved off it, and all would be good. Nope, it was still there Thursday morning, and the day was cold and cloudy.
Nature taking its course is one thing, but I knew on Saturday my yard bloke would be round with his leafblower, and I didn't want the little guy blasted to heck. I resolved to move him on Friday to avoid that circumstance, assuming he was still there. He was, so Friday AM I picked him off the wall, put him in the Lizard Charging Station (LCS) and placed the LCS in the sun on the patio.
See how his tail is arched up? That's because he is still frozen in a defensive posture assumed when I picked him up. Head back, gaping mouth, and tail arched upwards, all to make him look bigger I guess.
After about 25 minutes I went out to check the lizard's charged status. Note the more even pale color. I cracked the lid and poked a finger in saying, "Are you juiced?" A couple of 1000 rpm trips around the inside of the charger convinced me he was good to go.
I tried to tip him out onto the top of a sunny piece of wall, but the silly bugger came over the side and ended up at my feet. I had to use my hand to chase him up the wall into the sun.
Went out a bit later and he was facing the other way, and by late afternoon he was gone. I'll take that as a success.
Stepped out back on Wednesday morning to find this.
No big deal to see a Common Tree Lizard on a wall in Vegas, but on a chilly 38°F morning in December? Yeah, first time for me in 25+ years of living here. Our working theory is that he either got chased out of his winter digs by another critter, or had been shaken out of a nearby tree by the strong winds earlier in the week.
Note how dark it is, indicating it is cold and needs to pick up heat from the sun, ASAP. Trouble is, that piece of wall doesn't see the sun until about 1230, and the bottom part of the wall where the lizard was sitting does not warm up very well as the heat gets sunk into the ground.
I'm a believer in letting nature take its course, so I left him/her there and went back later to see if it had moved. As you can see, signs of life!
Better color, but still looking chilly. I figured it would move to a hidey hole once the sun moved off it, and all would be good. Nope, it was still there Thursday morning, and the day was cold and cloudy.
Nature taking its course is one thing, but I knew on Saturday my yard bloke would be round with his leafblower, and I didn't want the little guy blasted to heck. I resolved to move him on Friday to avoid that circumstance, assuming he was still there. He was, so Friday AM I picked him off the wall, put him in the Lizard Charging Station (LCS) and placed the LCS in the sun on the patio.
See how his tail is arched up? That's because he is still frozen in a defensive posture assumed when I picked him up. Head back, gaping mouth, and tail arched upwards, all to make him look bigger I guess.
After about 25 minutes I went out to check the lizard's charged status. Note the more even pale color. I cracked the lid and poked a finger in saying, "Are you juiced?" A couple of 1000 rpm trips around the inside of the charger convinced me he was good to go.
I tried to tip him out onto the top of a sunny piece of wall, but the silly bugger came over the side and ended up at my feet. I had to use my hand to chase him up the wall into the sun.
Went out a bit later and he was facing the other way, and by late afternoon he was gone. I'll take that as a success.
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