Leaving home
Posted:
Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:15 pmby blacknstormy
We caught this lizard in one of our traps - it's a Lamprophilis amicula (secretive skink) ... when we let it go, it headed straight for what must have been its 'home' log. If you sit long enough, and quitely enough - they eventually leave home
Posted:
Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:23 pmby avkomp
nice lizard and the grain on the log helps.
what is a lizard trap??
steve
Posted:
Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:32 pmby blacknstormy
Steve - we use 'pitfall traps' - essentially a series of 20 litre buckets buried up to the lip, and with approximately 15 metres of drift fence running along above/between the buckets. An animal walks along, comes in contact with the drift fence, and continues along it, trying to get around to the other side. Comes to the bucket and falls in
Sits in comfort under leaf litter until we come and check the trap line the following morning. Not sure if this makes sense, so this is a photo from the web of the setup (can't be bothered trying to find one of mine sorry
)
http://www.hudson.k12.ma.us/schools_district/hhs/about/pan/pantanal_05/journals/banks/images/Complete+Trap.JPG
Posted:
Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:35 pmby avkomp
thanks Rel,
I have often found lizards around here trapped in buckets, nowadays I try to not leave them where the lizards can become trapped.
I knew what you meant without the pic, but a picture is always worth a thousand words.
Steve
Posted:
Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:37 pmby marcotrov
Nicely composed Rel. I agree that the grain and colour of the log complements the lizard's portrait. As a behavioural shot his exit from the hole in the log adds an element of mystery that adds to the overall imapct of the image.
cheers
marco
