reyesjoshuacruz
Established Member
After years of research and a great opportunity i found my self with the time and means to hunt for feral jax on tues....to no avail.
The best part was my wife joining in, and needing no convincing to do so. thats a treat in it of itself. Some of you will understand how wonderful i felt that she understood how much it would mean to me to go out of our way to search for them.
she even waited in the car for about an hour after she was too tired to keep going.
be sad with me though because of course i found none, granted i was searching mid day in a place i had never been and had to pull teeth just to get the info i got.
I did how ever talk to some residents, some claimed to never have seen them while others said they hadnt seen as many around lately.
" i see all kinds of lizards....wall lizards, grass lizards but nothing that big...and with horns i would probably kill it????? "
i was very fortunate to be approached by a resident that inquired as to what i was doing ( mustve looked pretty strange staring up into trees for two hours ) i explained and he got this look on his face.... he took me to his yard and pointed out where a female was found just weeks ago. he advs he used to see them all the time all over, but not so much lately, and then he let me search his yard. After i found nothing he advs the best place to look and i thanked him and went on my way (i had searched there already but only briefly )
Now i know exactly where to look, next time ill have better timing and hopefully find and photograph.
I spotted this " chameleon " from across the street... ran over and was amazed/disapointed at how much the silhouette of these two leaves looked exactly like a chameleon perching horizontally
there is always next time
The best part was my wife joining in, and needing no convincing to do so. thats a treat in it of itself. Some of you will understand how wonderful i felt that she understood how much it would mean to me to go out of our way to search for them.
she even waited in the car for about an hour after she was too tired to keep going.
be sad with me though because of course i found none, granted i was searching mid day in a place i had never been and had to pull teeth just to get the info i got.
I did how ever talk to some residents, some claimed to never have seen them while others said they hadnt seen as many around lately.
" i see all kinds of lizards....wall lizards, grass lizards but nothing that big...and with horns i would probably kill it????? "
i was very fortunate to be approached by a resident that inquired as to what i was doing ( mustve looked pretty strange staring up into trees for two hours ) i explained and he got this look on his face.... he took me to his yard and pointed out where a female was found just weeks ago. he advs he used to see them all the time all over, but not so much lately, and then he let me search his yard. After i found nothing he advs the best place to look and i thanked him and went on my way (i had searched there already but only briefly )
Now i know exactly where to look, next time ill have better timing and hopefully find and photograph.
I spotted this " chameleon " from across the street... ran over and was amazed/disapointed at how much the silhouette of these two leaves looked exactly like a chameleon perching horizontally
there is always next time
