Not a garden visitor !

Not a wonderful photo but the little boy/girl was not in a good place to take a photo, he/she has taken up residence on an indoor window sill and I didn´t want to disturb him/her.

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Ah, bless - you will put it outside later though?

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How sweet I saw a newt the other night I love little lizardy things

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I hope you don't tell him/her to "hop it". Loretta

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The baby lizard is still there but he´s moved to another plant pot. I don´t think he´ll get put outside, very difficult to catch without damaging him and I would hate to do that. If he´s happy there catching mosquitos he´s very welcome to stay. We had one a big larger than this one who lived for a long time behind a washbasin pedestal in one of the bathrooms, two much bigger ones who appear to live under the washing machine in the outhouse and we had a really big one who lived in the rockery for two years, until we saw him one day with most of his tail missing, cat presumably, he left very soon after that. He was really big, we looked him up and he was an Eyed Lizard, evidently the largest European lizard. I have photographs of him. We also see quite a few baby lizards running along the garden wall. I like them very much, so they are always welcome.

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This was the rockery lizard after he lost his beautiful long tail.

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I don't think a missing tail is a bad thing, it likely will grow back. I watched that happen to lizzards in Florida so I know it is true.

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The tails do indeed grow back ShirleyMarie, but according to what I have read they never grow back as strong as the original one, the regrowth remain fragile. On the other hand they are probably safer without a long tail, not so easy for cats and other predators to grab hold of.