Sunday, September 22, 2013

Catching Reptiles and Amphibians with Tellen

On Thursday after school my friend Tellen came over. We decided to catch some reptiles and amphibians. Some of the things we caught were a speckled racer, basilisk lizard, silky anole, jumping anole, geckos, gulf coast toads, tree frogs, and attempted to catch an iguana.
Tree frog (Hoppy Go Lucky the 27th)

Speckled racer

Me with the speckled racer. My friend Alexandra is in the background.


Me and Tellen with our little Izzets

Silky anole and baby basilisk lizard

Me and Tellen with Hoppy go Lucky the 28th and 29th


Hoppy Go Lucky the 30th
We also saw Lyle in our front yard, and we freaked Alexandra out with the snake. But she was a good sport about it.

Monday, September 16, 2013

What lives in our backyard?

A green iguana in my back yard
Three weeks ago I moved to San Pedro, Belize with my family. When we got to our house, we looked in the backyard, and there was a giant green iguana sitting by the lake! We also saw push-up lizards, anoles, tree frogs, geckos, wish-willys, and basilisk lizards.

As for birds, there are lots of orioles, night-jars, grackles, herons (great blue and green), cinnamon humming birds, frigate birds, and we even saw two roseate spoonbills.

In the lake, there are tarpon, crocodiles, turtles, and little minnows (and a bunch of other stuff!)

Lyle, the crocodile, lounging in our backyard

Hoppy Go Lucky the 2nd, a gigantic gulf coast toad
The 'little Izzet' (baby basilisk lizard)
Should frog (Hoppy Go Lucky the 4th)

Gecko friend

Giant blue land crab munching on our garbage
We also have bats, land crabs, and rats in our yard. And lots of shiny-eyed spiders that look very poisonous! Be back soon for another blog post.