Camouflage Me
by Marcia Breznay
Title
Camouflage Me
Artist
Marcia Breznay
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This is a Mohave Desert Side-blotched Lizard. This year we seemed to have an over abundance of them. He tried to hide from me by camouflaging himself as tree bark, but I found him with my prying lens. He seemed quite annoyed with the attention.
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The common side-blotched lizard is common to abundant throughout arid and semi-arid regions of the state, excluding most of northern California, the Sacramento Valley, the Sierra-Cascade ranges, and several of the Channel Islands. Its elevation range extends from below sea level to over 2440 m (8000 ft). Prefers open habitats including desert cactus scrub, coastal scrub, chaparral, grass, juniper, pinyon pine-juniper, Joshua tree and valley-foothill.
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Side-blotched lizards eat a wide variety of insects and other arthropods.
Seldom climbs. It, therefore, must hide in rock crevices and under other objects of sufficient size. --Mohave Desert Wildlife
Or try and camouflage itself on tree bark !!
Many thanks to the following groups for featuring Camouflage Me:
Nature Wildlife Sunsets and Sunrise
Nature Photography 1 Per Day
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September 29th, 2013
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