No respect for personal space

[Solly Mack]

My idiot spent the morning bush hogging and was taking a break when this happened.



A baby green anole jumped onto his work boot.

Got comfy.



Climbed up his pants and right into his hand.



Up his arm to his shoulder.



Up his face.



Into his sweaty hair







From there the friendly little thing jumped to the back of the bench and off to parts unknown.


Critters like my husband. Hummingbirds will even land on him.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Oh my dear Solly Mack! OMIGOD.

Your husband is a remarkably tolerant man!

And those are great photos!

Thanks so much.

[Solly Mack]

3. Thanks, CaliforniaPeggy. He was thrilled by the lizard crawling on him.

I was jealous.

[Bayard]

2. I love anoles!

I had a couple as pets when I was a kid.

[Solly Mack]

4. I do too! They are a joy to observe.

[Bayard]

5. I used to get meal worms to feed mine

Fascinating to watch--like little velociraptors. I took one to school a few times, hidden under my collar.

[Solly Mack]

6. I sometimes sit on the porch just to watch them. They hang out in my flower beds during the day.

I have water features for the butterflies and bees and the anoles enjoy them too.

I took a branch from a downed tree and placed it in one of my flower beds for the anoles to sun themselves on.

I purchased tall native shrubs to replace the invasive ones just to give the green anoles somewhere to climb and hide.

I placed terracotta pots around outside for the brown anoles.

We're very pro-anole here.

The Geckos come out at night. We keep a few lights going outside that have enough lumens to attract bugs for them to eat.

We're weird.

[Dem2theMax]

7. I love weird.

And both of you sound like the best kind of weird to me!

[Solly Mack]

13. That's kind of you. Thank you.

We like critters.

[Permanut]

8. Your kind of weirdness could save the planet..

I'm serious

[Solly Mack]

14. Our goals aren't so grand. Just keeping our teeny tiny part of the world as critter friendly as possible.

[ShazzieB]

21. All of that sounds really cool.

We're too far north to see anoles (or any lizards, as far as I know) in the wild. I would love to be able to watch baby anoles frolicking!

BTW, autocorrect just proved how stupid it is by trying to change the word anoles to angles.

[Solly Mack]

22. Autocorrect is a scourge.

Except when it's not.

The adult ones fight a lot. Competing males. I tell them to "Behave". Doesn't work.

[jaxexpat]

9. I see about 200 of them, every day, come take all you want.

We have the invasive and the native species available at a discounted price of $0.00 per dozen.

[Solly Mack]

15. If I could, I would.

[mnhtnbb]

10. Amazing!

Great shots.
I've been watching several anoles in my yard recently. I see them when I sit outside for coffee in the morning, or when I'm out watering the yard. But climbing on me? Um, no thanks.

[Solly Mack]

16. Thanks, mnhtnbb. It's hatchling time around here. Why there are so many baby anoles about.

He said the anole barely tickled his arm hair. lol

[Callalily]

11. Your photos made me smile! Thanks!

[Solly Mack]

17. You're welcome, Callalily.

[2naSalit]

12. Pretty cool!

A friend called me, last week, to tell of his unusual wildlife interaction, an up close and personal one kind of like your hubby's. My friend was at a storage unit, a big one, and was lying back in his truck with the back opened yet inside the building. Said he was asleep when something landed on his chest, fluttering and then held still for less than a second. It was a fledgling peregrine falcon! Flew right in the back of the truck and landed on his chest. Once he was awake enough to figure out what was going on it was gone. He figured out what kind of bird it was by the upset parent circling above outside.

These unexpected moments of wildlife interactions are usually amusing.

Great picks and story!

[Solly Mack]

18. Now, that's a cool story.

I love birds! Even the birds that eat other birds.

[2naSalit]

19. Both are...

I am a fan of birds too, I figure they eat what they eat to balance the ecosystem, even if they have to eat the cute ones.

[Solly Mack]

20. We created a wood pile for the voles, and we did so knowing it would attract owls, hawks, eagles and snakes.

We didn't want to use poison on the voles - and there were a lot of them - so we tried to create a balance.

Some of the land was wild and we've been shaping it to keep the critters happy and us happy.

We watched a day owl grab a vole from inside the pile. I don't enjoy the killing but the balance is what allows for the survival of as many critters as possible.

Got a dead tree I refuse to cut down out back. If it falls it won't land on any buildings. Right now, that's where the predators hang out scouting the land.

Vultures group together there as well.