More Reptiles (Non-Lethal This Time)

[TheNevadanStig]

Got a bunch of shots of lizards yesterday. These little guys are not easy to shoot at all. Small, shy, lightning quick, and well camouflaged. I'm getting better at ID's as I google these things a little more each time.

Great Basin Whiptail:
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This one I'm not 100% on, but I believe it's a Long Nosed Leopard Lizard:
133 by TheNevadanStig, on Flickr

I didn't know at the time, but he seemed to be eating a fly of some sort:
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Then some more Fence Lizards, AKA Blue-Bellies. Interesting fact about the blue bellies: They have a natural protein in their blood which destroys lyme disease. In areas the population of these lizards is dense, it is much more unlikely to get the disease from ticks, because as the ticks feed on the lizards, the lizards basically cure the tick of the disease.

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