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Damn, there is always a stick or leaf in the way of a good photo ,,,,,,,,,, If only I had been a few centimeters
to the left more .......... or that first little leaf wasn't there ......... or the Lizard had stopped a half second earlier. This female Western Fence Lizard was on the far side of our yard from where I photographed a male Western Fence Lizard (www.inaturalist.org/observations/208222204) three days ago emerging from beneath a scrap wood pile. However, they will eventually cross paths and provide us with more "cute" little juvenile Western Fence Lizards (www.inaturalist.org/observations/197872198 and www.inaturalist.org/observations/107068915) to photograph in the future.

Wow, I woke up this morning and saw a Ground Squirrel in our backyard for the first time ever. But he was in a garden bed "checking the digs out". He must have just been out exploring for new territory, or he could be living in our firewood pile too. We can share the garden with it for awhile, but if he starts digging tunnels and holes and burrows, then I will have to trap it, and release it somewhere else away from the houses.