This morning I watched as a fence lizard was sunning itself. Other one ran out of the pear tree and chased it off, then it had breakfast, watched me for a while and took over the sunning spot. It was quite an adventure watching the behavior.
These lizard display to each other by doing "push ups". Their colors also changed from dark black, to the warm lizard colors of pale brown with a white dorsal stripe. I pulled up a chair and dragged out my tripod for an extended watch session. It was therapeutic to "fade into the background" and watch the natural work get back to it's own thing in the background. It was jarring during this time watching how much humans punch a hole in the calm of nature with their cellphone calls and engines. you could see the birds and lizards, even the insect stop what they had been doing and wait for the disturbance to pass. We humans are so impatient. after a few minutes of waiting for the lizards to get back to lizardy things, I had to get an Ipad for notes and intenet, a telescope to watch closer and fiddle with the tripod settings. The lizards were just as ADHD, foraging, chasing each other, foraging and sunbathing, which they do an awful lot of.
The small birds are pretty bold today, one was using the birdbath, even though I was sitting a couple of feet away. Another species would come very close to people to sing. Maybe using our bright colors to show off their own? I have no idea what species it is. My phone with Inaturalist app. on it is still drying out from the ditch dunking it received.
The weeds on the ditch were removed by a determined neighbor suffering cabin fever, I noticed the march flies hovering over the damp areas, probably attracted to good egg laying sites.
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