@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote
My camera shoots fascistsBill is a very handsome boy and he's wondering why you're bothering him if you don't have any food to share.
@GreenFire This belongs in the #BillTheLizard thread lol
Today's #LizardReport
Here's Bill showing off his push-ups. Such a big strong boy!
OMG The lizard antics are so adorable.
I ran out of mealworms yesterday, but I told everybody — my lizard frens — that a giant box of them was arriving today.
Last fall, Bill used to regularly come strolling into the house looking to be fed if I were sitting at the kitchen table instead of on the front porch. But he hasn't done that at all since coming out of hibernation a couple weeks ago. But today, minutes after the FedEx person dropped the box of mealworms on the porch, he ran up there, almost like he knew what was inside 😆
Bill is a smart lizard, but I don't think he can read or understand me when I speak English.
So I see "Bill" over on the wall. When I get up from the porch seat to go get some worms, he bolts away. I go get some food and walk back over there and I can't figure out why he's being so skittish until he comes up close and turns out it's… A different lizard!
This one is much lighter, a little thinner and has an original intact tail. It has tamed up extremely fast though! Already lets me stroke his chin a little bit.
I was doing my little whistle while I was feeding it in order to whistle train it and I guess Bill heard that and popped out from his hiding place at the other end of the wall.
He got fed too and now they are both facing each other about 30 feet apart. There is plenty of room for both, so I hope they don't start fighting.
#BillTheLizard looks like he shed his skin recently. His right eye still has some old flaky scales hanging around the edge of it. I think that's why I thought it may be a different lizard because he looked a little darker but I think it's just because he has new scales and decided to hang out in a new spot. Up close, that's clearly Bill.
Bill the lizard showed back up on the wall today. Just went over and fed him. I'm surprised he's being so scarce. Before it cooled off last fall and he went in hibernation, he would routinely come into the house all the way into the kitchen demanding to be fed in the morning. He does totally remember me though.
I just realized something that may indicate a problem: when all the lizards are out, I spend more time in any given day talking to them than I do to humans.
I went and got another beetle for him so I could get a close-up.
Yay! yay! Bill woke up and remembers me! Just this morning I was thinking that this week of hot weather should be enough to bring the other lizards out of hibernation came out on the porch just now and there was Bill on the small stone wall. He was a little skittish so I had to throw the first couple mealworms to him and after that he practically let me pet him.
If you scroll back through this thread, there is a shot or two of him when he first came out and I wasn't sure it was Bill from last fall. I'm still not totally sure, but his behavior seems very similar. Or I think I have some shots of him under the #BillTheLizard tag from last year.