This green anole didn’t exactly stand out while it climbed the leaf of a snake plant (Dracaena trifasciata).
Green on green
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To the winner goes the spoils
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Peek.’ See more responses here.
I had a couple of photos lined up for this, but a few days ago I was outside cleaning windows. (I do it annually, whether they need it or not!) I got distracted by a kerfuffle in the cane grass behind me. I thought I saw an anole, so dashed inside and got my camera. When I got back and peeked into the tangle mass of cane grass, I could see two anoles locked in mortal combat.
I was pretty sure this was two males fighting. Usually, when there’s a territorial dispute there’s a lot of puffing and posturing that resolves the issue. This time, the two anoles were similar sized and the challenge was on.
It was hard to get a clear view, but each anole had a grip on the other’s head. Both sported dark bruising from the encounter. They wrestled to gain the upper hand, jerking up and down the cane grass as they did so.
Eventually, they fell apart. It was hard to tell who was the winner, but since one of them left the scene, I figured the other had won or defended his territory. However, since he was staggering around like he’d just gone 15 rounds with Mike Tyson, the other one might want to regroup and see about coming out for round 2!
That look
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Frosty.’ See more responses here.
Since there’s not a lot of frost on the ground around here, I thought I’d go with the frosty look I got when I pointed my camera at this green anole, which currently lives under the eaves.
Anole on a white post
Another post from a walk around the garden. Here, a green anole clings to a post wondering what it has to do to get rid of the photographer’s attention.
Posted for Becky’s Squares theme of “Walking” (See more responses here).
Brown Anole
I saw this anole down at Honokohau Harbor in Kailua Kona. It was asserting its rights to a patch of territory there, though it didn’t look particularly promising as far as harboring much in the way of food. It’s also an area that tends to be thick with house sparrows, hanging around to snag leftover French fries at the Harbor House restaurant, which is where these photos were taken from.
Green Anole on a step
This Green Anole looked very suspicious about having someone sneaking up behind and taking photos.
Green anole in foliage
I had to go back more than a week to find my last photo for Bushboy’s Last on the Card photo challenge (see more responses here). It might not be the last photo I took, but it is the last I saved, and I’d already processed it for posting later this week. There’s really not much difference between the original (above) and the adjusted version (below). I cropped the photo a bit and lightened the shadows a bit to bring out the anole more, but it works pretty well even without that.
Brown anole on the shore
A brown anole scans the scene on the Kona shoreline.
Graham's Island 