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Another lovely visitor to my garden!
Posted under Garden, Pets by Melinda
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This was almost heart attack material! I went into the garden this morning to stake a tomato plant that didn’t hold up too well in our recent wild weather. Then I looked down and the first thing I saw was brown scales under the mulch! Of course my first thought was “SNAKE”, and it was right where I was about to step, and then I realised that it had legs. It’s an Eastern Blue Tongue Lizard. He’s about a foot long, so definately an adult. Lovely!
He’s lost his tail, and you can tell it was fairly recently as it hasn’t grown back yet, and I’m really, really hoping that it wasn’t my cat who did that to it! So until I can get a fence around the vegie gardens, which I need to do before the chooks arrive anyway, she will be an inside cat, or very closely supervised outside.
After Dian arrived home from school I showed her the lizard and then we fed him/her some banana and apple. Obviously it liked them, ate them all up! He’s a most welcome visitor in our garden as Blue Tongues eat snails and slugs.
Isn’t he beautiful!
I love having blue tongues in the garden, problem is that there are too many cats around here. We are lucky enough to have a breeding pair living nearby and each year find baby blue tongues in the yard, very sad when we find them after the cats do. I always relocate the healthy babies we find to a nearby bushland reserve.
Unfortunately the lizard only stayed with us for a few days. Wish he’d stayed longer!