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I was able to get out this morning for a couple of hours and shot some great video of a little solare. It was really interesting in that he was right next to the dirt road on a rugosus mound and eating. I was able to pull up within 15 feet and sit in my (air conditioned truck and do about 45 minutes of video. One of the cool parts was when I got out and actually walked up on him. He stood absolutely motionless as I walked around him in a two foot circle. Then went back in the truck to film him resuming his breakfast. This one is obviously a little desensitized to human presence living right next to a well traveled dirt road. Here's a photo. Hope to have some video on the website soon.
Cheers!

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I so hate you guys for being able to just do that, in a little free time before work! jk

I'm talking to a lady out in west Texas on another forum, who has wild Cornutum that visit her yard to eat the harvester ants that she also feeds in order to keep the lizards around. what luck to be able to watch them through a window like hummingbirds or something!

I might get the chance in the morning or after work to fly my R/C plane to wind down...I'd much rather be able to find horned lizards! just the other day as I was preparing to fly, I caught myself starring across the field into the woods, and thinking; you know there used to be Horned Lizards around here when I was a kid...I wonder if somewhere out there, back in the woods, like in the land time forgot, some Texas Horned Lizards may still be around?

unfortunately, there aren't many places left that development and fireants have forgotten.
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