Here is Bill and girlfriend together. If she stays around, I'll have to figure out what her name is. I hope they decide to come back to the front yard, cause it's kind of annoying to go back there to feed them. I liked it better when they would come up to the porch on their own.

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OK, so I'm pretty sure the one in the picture in the post above and this one are the same and he has moved into the spot on the wall in the backyard. Not only does it look the same, but was immediately very tame when I approached with mealworms, even to the point of jumping off the wall onto my shoulder.

I get the impression that in the spring when they wake up, they won't necessarily stay in their old spot. This is the third year for Bill, but he has been moving around a bit and is nowhere to be seen today.

He's a handsome boy and he likes posing. Hopefully he'll stay around and I'll figure out a name for him.

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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.

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#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.

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I haven't seen Bill in a few days, but just realized there's another large spiny lizard living on the other side of the low rock wall. At first I thought it was a different lizard, but now, comparing photos, I think it might be Bill, though this one seems skittish. In my observations, they are kind of like cats in that they will have "their spot" for a while and then all of a sudden decide they like somewhere else better. But if it is Bill, I don't know why he's being skittish.

Anyway, what's amusing is that there is a pair of curved bill thrashers nesting in a big cactus in the yard. They have learned that when I'm whistling it means I'm tossing out mealworms for the lizards and they will come and snatch them.

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I went and got another beetle for him so I could get a close-up.

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