A Male Brown Anole Extending Dewlap, Flamingo Gardens, Florida
After spending two warm weeks photographing birds, bugs and reptiles in Florida, I’ll be spending the next two weeks filtering through my collection of images and along the way, giving you a glimpse of what I came home with. I hope you’ll seeing enjoy them as much as I enjoyed capturing them.
Although reptiles aren’t my favorite subject, this tiny creature surprised me by interrupting a butterfly shot, and because of his colorful dewlap, which is a fold of skin that when extended indicates that males are available for mating, I couldn’t help but turn my focus to him.
These guys are highly invasive though and Wikipedia says they were introduced into the U.S. via the importation and exportation of plants years ago. And although it’s a bit too cold for them here in the PNW, they are moving northward and although cute and fun to photograph, I can only hope that there isn’t one, or heaven forbid two, lingering in my suitcase…
