Corralitas Drive: Alligator Lizard

Photo: Diane Edwardson, October 13, 2012, 5:22 PM.  From halfway across my backyard, I caught sight of a nearly foot-long (nose to tail) Alligator Lizard hanging out under the overhang of my neighbor's roof.  (Click on photo to enlarge.)

 

This lizard was extraordinary.  I've never seen such a large lizard so high up a wall before.  (It seems to be poaching the spider's food stores.)   It