Tegu?

[Ray--Opo]

I haven't seen the agama since Rose got a pic. Don't know their range, but maybe it was just passing through.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I haven't seen the agama since Rose got a pic. Don't know their range, but maybe it was just passing through.

Nope.
You'll be seeing him or she or his relatives in the warmer months to come

 

[jeff kushner]

Yeah, I'm just a dumb plumber but it doesn't take a college grad to see that you guys down there are being hammered with invasive species as they are called. Not sure that's a correct description though since they don't do it with people, just animals. A lot of it is real bad as the small mammals are taken by a host of new and competing predators.

It is a mess though for you guys living it, Nutria, snakes, lizards....then the invasive fauna.....it does provide one heck of a laboratory of sorts for outside observers.

Up in the Great Lakes they are dealing with the ells and snails....and soon Snakeheads...(they were discovered years ago by my sons best friend Lance & his dad here in Crofton Md behind the Exxon). That invasion is following the Chinese Carp invasion....when the sound of a boat engine causes them to leap, often hitting folks.


I think that maybe this is just a condensed variation of how all species came to spread over the eons.....and how each group other than the true "specialists" forced to forge for new foods as completion drove them to.

I do think many native species will be coming to a close including Trout, Bass and many other freshwater fish as their young are reduced by the aggressive Snakeheads....they seem to dominate over everything except catfish young.

 

[Ray--Opo]

Yeah, I'm just a dumb plumber but it doesn't take a college grad to see that you guys down there are being hammered with invasive species as they are called. Not sure that's a correct description though since they don't do it with people, just animals. A lot of it is real bad as the small mammals are taken by a host of new and competing predators.

It is a mess though for you guys living it, Nutria, snakes, lizards....then the invasive fauna.....it does provide one heck of a laboratory of sorts for outside observers.

Up in the Great Lakes they are dealing with the ells and snails....and soon Snakeheads...(they were discovered years ago by my sons best friend Lance & his dad here in Crofton Md behind the Exxon). That invasion is following the Chinese Carp invasion....when the sound of a boat engine causes them to leap, often hitting folks.


I think that maybe this is just a condensed variation of how all species came to spread over the eons.....and how each group other than the true "specialists" forced to forge for new foods as completion drove them to.

I do think many native species will be coming to a close including Trout, Bass and many other freshwater fish as their young are reduced by the aggressive Snakeheads....they seem to dominate over everything except catfish young.

The only possible saving grace with the Asian carp in the Great lakes. The Asian carp are warm water fish. Lake Michigan will probably be the first to get invaded. The carp are in the Chicago River with only one electric barrier to keep them out of lake Michigan. Hopefully they won't adapt to cold water. If they do get into the rivers and tributaries around the Great lakes. They will be devastating on the spawn of the game fish. One good thing is the DNR stocks the Great lakes with the game fish. So the fish population doesn't just depend on natural spawning. Parts of Lake Erie are shallow and Lake St. Clair. So the carp might thrive in those lakes.
FUN FACT:
Even though Lake St Clair is part of the Great Lakes system. It is not considered one of the Great Lakes.

 

[jeff kushner]

I had forgotten that you used live in MI, Ray. This is your fault:

1429 Bird Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 | MLS #3284871 | Zillow

1429 Bird Rd, Ann Arbor MI, is a Single Family home that contains 2500 sq ft and was built in 1960.It contains 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.This home last sold for $720,000 in December 2021. The Zestimate for this Single Family is $771,200, which has increased by $1,723 in the last 30 days.The...

www.zillow.com

I moved to this house when I was 3....I remember going to the site with my 3 sisters, Berta our golden ret while Dad and mom worked on the house....they built it. I used the 1st of 31 lives choking on a fistful of marshmallows in the hallway leaving the kitchen.....I saw my life flash before my eyes, it didn't take long, I was only three! I also remember being woken at night to go to my first Drive in Movie! Flipper! There was an apple tree in the front year that I learned to ride a 2 wheeler around.....I still have the 8mm(on vhs now) that mom took of me learning how to ride a bike. Cool, right?

When we moved to MD in '63, they rented to the Ormsby's who had a kid named jeff, my age and we had a couple days to play together as they and my folks met....within a year he was dead, running on the ice on the Huron river after his dog. He was the 1st person that I knew, that died.

My grandma & grampa used to live in St Clair Shores so I remember Grampa taking me down there...there was a big pond there too where I learned to ice skate @ 2 or 3 like everyone else did there back then.

sorry...talking lizards and I go off on a nostalgia rant.....

 

[Ray--Opo]

I had forgotten that you used live in MI, Ray. This is your fault:

1429 Bird Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 | MLS #3284871 | Zillow

1429 Bird Rd, Ann Arbor MI, is a Single Family home that contains 2500 sq ft and was built in 1960.It contains 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.This home last sold for $720,000 in December 2021. The Zestimate for this Single Family is $771,200, which has increased by $1,723 in the last 30 days.The...

www.zillow.com

I moved to this house when I was 3....I remember going to the site with my 3 sisters, Berta our golden ret while Dad and mom worked on the house....they built it. I used the 1st of 31 lives choking on a fistful of marshmallows in the hallway leaving the kitchen.....I saw my life flash before my eyes, it didn't take long, I was only three! I also remember being woken at night to go to my first Drive in Movie! Flipper! There was an apple tree in the front year that I learned to ride a 2 wheeler around.....I still have the 8mm(on vhs now) that mom took of me learning how to ride a bike. Cool, right?

When we moved to MD in '63, they rented to the Ormsby's who had a kid named jeff, my age and we had a couple days to play together as they and my folks met....within a year he was dead, running on the ice on the Huron river after his dog. He was the 1st person that I knew, that died.

My grandma & grampa used to live in St Clair Shores so I remember Grampa taking me down there...there was a big pond there too where I learned to ice skate @ 2 or 3 like everyone else did there back then.

sorry...talking lizards and I go off on a nostalgia rant.....

That's fine going off topic. I am afraid these crazy prices we are seeing in real-estate won't last. I think the balloon will burst again. Looks like a lot of people already forgot 2008. Credit card debt is at a all time high. People living beyond their means again.
I remember learning to ice skate at a ice rink in the park. That's when I lived in Royal Oak Michigan. That was around 1964.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

From the local news

 

[Ray--Opo]

From the local news

What type of lizard is that?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

What type of lizard is that?

Red headed Agama.
I'm the sunlight their bodies are bright royal blue to purple

 

[Ray--Opo]

Red headed Agama.
I'm the sunlight their bodies are bright royal blue to purple

They are colorful

 

[ZEROPILOT]

They are colorful

Very.
But also too nasty to make a great pet

 

[Tom]

Very.
But also too nasty to make a great pet

I wonder how they would be if captive bred and the babies were hand raised?