I am not a herpatoligist, I in fact know diddly squat about lizards. Except that I like having them in the yard (so long as they’re non-venomous) because they’re fun and cute.
That having been said, I believe this to be one big, chonky, seriously gravid mama lizard.
She was hanging on the wall next to the pergola as I was refilling the birdseed feeders this evening around sunset.
There are hundreds of previous photos of Western fence lizards on this site over the past thirteen years from this yard, the previous yard, and the one before that. All of them are skinny, slender, straight bodies. This one is not, the exact opposite in fact – and I think that’s because she’s about to lay a clutch of eggs somewhere underneath this bush.
Watch for a slew of teeny, tiny, baby lizards in the near future.
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