Lizard sighting

[placedesjardins]

I have a big plastic bin which I use to store garbage. I then take that bin to the local dump. I don't pay for garbage pick-up services and the local government does not have garbage pick-up services for residents. I can't fit a garbage can in my car so I use the bin.
So I pick up the bin and out scurries a lizard. It was around four inches. I'm guessing it was there to stay out of the sunlight. It scared me, as I wasn't expecting it. Has this happened to you?

Last year, I had a run-in with a turtle hiding in some cut-down branches.

[ShredderMaximus]

Originally Posted by placedesjardins

Has this happened to you?

Seeing a lizard or being startled?

[boynamedsuse]

Be glad he's there. He is probably helping you by eating bugs.

[MatticusMania]

What is your location OP?

We have random lizards all over the place in SoCal.

[Truktek2]

Was he trying to sell you a Geico policy?

[Biggbass]

I have been seriously considering trying to relocate some Horned Toad Lizards to my property to help manage the red ants.

[Unrepresented]

Originally Posted by MatticusMania

What is your location OP?

We have random lizards all over the place in SoCal.

I encounter hundreds of lizards a day some days out here in greater San Diego. They are typically sunning themselves on a porch and I scare them off approaching, or at least the blue bellied ones do. The alligator lizards usually don't scare as easy.

[tastybasslines]

Every time I open my pants, I see my lizard and startle myself.

[MatticusMania]

Originally Posted by Unrepresented

I encounter hundreds of lizards a day some days out here in greater San Diego. They are typically sunning themselves on a porch and I scare them off approaching, or at least the blue bellied ones do. The alligator lizards usually don't scare as easy.

That is quite a lot of lizards. Ha, lot lizards...

I usually find them (lizards, not lot lizards) on the walls of my house, out in the garden, or when hiking in the foothills.

I would not claim their presence to be startling, however.

[Indiana Mike]

I was in the Mohave desert for two months .

I was during my time in the army and when I say in the desert I mean out in the middle of it .

we lived in a tent and honestly have no idea why I was there as we did nothing but self entertainment the while time.


Everyday we would take our cots outside and suntan for awhile.

I felt something on me one day ,,,sat up and saw a pretty good size lizard on my leg getting some sun himself .

startled? Yes I was

[1958Bassman]

Originally Posted by placedesjardins

I have a big plastic bin which I use to store garbage. I then take that bin to the local dump. I don't pay for garbage pick-up services and the local government does not have garbage pick-up services for residents. I can't fit a garbage can in my car so I use the bin.
So I pick up the bin and out scurries a lizard. It was around four inches. I'm guessing it was there to stay out of the sunlight. It scared me, as I wasn't expecting it. Has this happened to you?

Last year, I had a run-in with a turtle hiding in some cut-down branches.

Where is you? If you're in the Desert SW, it could be a Desert Iguana, Banded Gekko, skink, etc.

[MJ5150]

No lizards, but I did see a bear the other day, and some turkeys.

-Mike

[Hobobob]

Little blue-bellies all over the place where I'm at, and occasional alligator lizards. I had an alligator lizard clamp onto my thumb when I stupidly picked it up one time. Won't make that mistake again

[jmattbassplaya]

We don't get them often in Memphis, but we do get them. I'll see maybe one or two a year and they're almost always a shock!

[Avalon]

When I lived in Italy, I had geckos. Occassionally they would get inside the house and they usually liked to hang out on the walls behind the water heater. I had a particularly large one that would hang out by the outside porch light and catch moths. He got so large, I kind of considered him the guard dog. On occassion he would jump out from his hiding spot as I was coming out of my front door. I was beginning to feel like he was sizing me up. He certainly seemed to grow a little bigger each day - to the point where I wondered how he could still stay attached to the wall without falling. Eventually, I transfered back to the U.S. and I let him reign supreme ~ and lie in wait for the next tenant.

[MazingerZ]

we have a house gecko who makes this sound "Tukko Tukkko" at random hours of the night. Our backyard (which is of sizeable area - we live outside the city in a farm) is full of small lizards (salamanders perhaps).

[champbassist]

We get geckos aplenty here. Though they generally like to hang out in enclosed spaces, once in a while they'll be found scurrying around floors. I've even stepped on them a couple of times and had a few crash dive upon me in the middle of the night. Only yesterday I switched on the fan in the living room and a tiny gecko baby flew 'descended' from the fan There are a few chameleons that can be seen outdoors, but they rarely venture into houses.

[macaroni tony]

I was waiting for a punchline, but apparently you just saw a lizard as you were taking out the garbage. I see 'em all the time. Guess it's just living in socal

[TolerancEJ]

If the lizard looks like this, call Spider-man!

[MatticusMania]

How does one call Spiderman?