It hasn’t been terribly warm yet this spring except for one or two days, but it’s been warm enough to bring the lizards out of their winter hibernation.
They’re climbers and clingers, and the cinder block wall warms up nicely first thing in the morning and then retains the heat all day long.
Up, down, sideways, it doesn’t matter. They’re relatively safe on the wall, hard to grab by a hawk or other bird while they’re vertical and flat against the surface.
They do stand out and are pretty visible against the brick, as opposed to how they were pretty well camoflouged on the bark covering the trunk of the big tree in our back yard at the old West Hills house. Nonetheless, this seems to be a good trade off for them.
They also like to climb up on top where they’re in full sunlight, but in our case that puts them in traffic. Those psycho squirrels run up and down the top of this fence all day long, like they’re drag racing. The psycho squirrels are oblivious to the lizards, but that doesn’t mean that the lizards won’t get run over and knocked off into the abyss. The interactions between the species seem to be coincidental and accidental, but that doesn’t mean that they’re not dangerous for the critter that’s an eighth the size of the high-speed psycho.
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