Strider LongshanksYou know summer is coming when the most colourful of our local lizards can be found sunning itself in the borders.
This male hasn't quite come into full mating colour, as the blue is still quite pale, but he didn't seem too bothered.
A few minutes earlier, my wife filmed him on the grass snatching a wood cricket that had the misfortune to jump into his line of sight. I have seen them eating other, smaller lizards, for whom they will lie in wait under cover of a nearby rock, water butt, or bush. They are lightning fast, and the noisiest of all the lizards we have as they charge through the undergrowth.
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#France
#WesternGreenLizard
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This male hasn't quite come into full mating colour, as the blue is still quite pale, but he didn't seem too bothered.
A few minutes earlier, my wife filmed him on the grass snatching a wood cricket that had the misfortune to jump into his line of sight. I have seen them eating other, smaller lizards, for whom they will lie in wait under cover of a nearby rock, water butt, or bush. They are lightning fast, and the noisiest of all the lizards we have as they charge through the undergrowth.
#auvergne
#France
#WesternGreenLizard
#reptiles
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