Tatt- I hope so, too. Surely, they’re still out there in places like Marfa & Muleshoe & Littlefield, etc...places that aren’t so built up. San Angelo, itself, isn’t just *so* built up (or wasn’t 10 years ago). I hope there are still some there.
Aww mine’s never had a name. I’m gonna fix that.
Andy- I looked for them for years & finally settled for turtles (Tooter & Tink) from the dime store (Winn’s).
Patriot- I think one of the neighbor boy’s in SA had one for awhile, but IIRR, they took it up to New Brraunfels & turned it loose. DH has stopped for several turtles in his rural claims travels & gotten them out of the road. Not sure if they were that species, though.
ps. I never saw any of them spit.
That’s nice of hubby to get the turtles (actually tortoises0 out of the road.
Most don’t care..just run over them.
We’re losing our Texas tortoises too.
I’ve seen the horny lizards shoot blood.
My mother always used to say if they spit in your eyes, it’ll put your eye out. (like bb guns LOL)
That’s no true, of course. She just didn’t want us fooling with them. LOL
Almost hit a big one last year on my motorcycle. It woulda wiped me out. I turned around and put him on the side he seemed to want to go to. I could see a pond a few hundred feet away. I figured it was heading out for lunch.
We have fewer of them than when I was young, but they are still here. Saw one a while back.
But we have a bunch of new species of lizards that we never had before. That has happened over the past 10-15 years.
And the Curlews and Plovers are gone. But the Asian Doves are all over. They are big birds. Don’t see the native doves much. The Asian varieties stay all year, don’t migrate. And there is no closed season on them, they are not native birds.
Just wished the quail population would reverse. Not sure what is the problem there. I see some pairs, but seldom a covey. Think the extreme drought is the issue.