Blue Tongue Lizards.

In the garden yesterday some of the birds were getting very noisy and agitated and we went to look what the matter was we found that there was a large Blue Tongue lizard walking along the edge of the garden. We have seen them quite often and this reminded me of photos I had taken back in March 2005.





This is a small one we found in the garden being tempted by James with a teaspoon full of buttermilk.




Which it enjoyed so was given a saucer full.

Since then we have heard rustling in the garden bushes and caught glimpses of lizards from time to time. One day we were sitting outside and watched a pair of mature lizards run across the lawn, which was lovely to see and meant that if there was a pair there could be more.

The one below was caught soaking up the sun early one morning. Its hard to get a scale of his size from the photo but he was about 600mm long.