
Invisibility cloak.
Common side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana), Hemet, California.

Invisibility cloak.
Common side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana), Hemet, California.

Invisibility cloak.
Common side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana), Hemet, California.

Inaugural lizard: This is my first lizard post of 2016. I predict there will be more.
Common side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana), at Joshua Tree National Park, California.
Please click photo to enlarge.
Inaugural lizard: This is my first lizard post of 2016. I predict there will be more.
Common side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana), at Joshua Tree National Park, California.
Please click photo to enlarge.
Common side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana), at the Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve, Phoenix, Arizona.

Common side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana), at the Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve, Phoenix, Arizona.
Basking.

Basking.
Common side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana ♂), in the Thunderbird Conservation Park in Glendale, Arizona.
This fellow was doing little lizard push-ups on his stone perch – a fearsome territorial display among his kind, but really amusing to me. I could watch for hours.
Please click photo for an enlarged view.

Common side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana ♂), in the Thunderbird Conservation Park in Glendale, Arizona.
This fellow was doing little lizard push-ups on his stone perch – a fearsome territorial display among his kind, but really amusing to me. I could watch for hours.
Please click photo for an enlarged view.