Scaly friends

After recently reading a friend's post about a lizard skin cactus, I found myself thinking about... lizards.

I love doing posts for the #featheredfriends community, but truth be told, I would love to be able to post about our scaly friends more often. Why doesn't it happend? Well, because these guys are way sneakier! A head peaking from the bushes? Yeah, frequent sighting... but it's not that easy to get decent reptile photos, at least on a regular basis.

Birds are much easier to spot, and to photograph. But there's no arguing about the beauty of these creatures that have scales instead of feathers.

I do have some decent photos, taken in several different ocasions, and several different locations, now that I think of it! Now that I have a decent computer and sorting through photos doesn't take ages, I'll probably try and find some of the scattered reptile photos and see what exactly have I captured so far.

Identification is another story. The ones with enough patience to read my post already realised how much I like to identify every species I see, and reptiles are no different! But it's a way harder task than identifying birds, since my knowledge in the latters is way bigger. Some species are unmistakable though, such as this brown basilisk, spotted in Costa Rica during a hiking trail.

How beautiful are these guys??

Apart from being able to share some photos, one of the things I like the most in posting is the fact that it makes me want to learn about the species I talk about, and some species I've made an extra effort to identify solely to be able to add the name to the photo! True, you might notice that's not happening in this post, but I do plan in posting about difference reptile species, if I manage to have a decent photo collection of them (and actually be able to identify them!); I'll certainly dig in my archives in the near future!

Because you see, not all of them can be as easy to identify as the cuties above... or the cuties below!

^{American crocodyle - Crocodylus acutus}

See what you've done @xrayman??? You had to talk about lizards, and now you've unleashed my identification ocd!! 😁

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