Leaning against a corrugated shed, a fruit picker casts a strong shadow in the late afternoon.
Tag Archives: Geckos
Mourning gecko
I like how this mourning gecko echoes the rough, rusty metal surface it stands on. It’s growing a new tip to its tail having lost the original in some sort of encounter, probably with a gold dust day gecko or a house gecko, which are more aggressive.
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Gold dust day gecko eye level
This gold dust day gecko looks suitably unimpressed at someone getting down to its level to confront it face to face.
Potted gecko
A gold dust day gecko peers out from behind a flowerpot.
Gold dust day gecko drinks from a ti plant
In the morning, it’s common to see geckos taking a drink of water. Sometimes it’s from morning dew or leftover drops from overnight rain. Here, a gold dust day gecko drinks from water collected where a ti leaf joins the main stem.
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Abstracts: The pitter-patter of tiny feet
The telltale foot pads of a gecko making its way up the outside of a window blind.
To the winner goes the … tail?
I saw the gold dust day gecko above on the edge of the roof with a trophy in its mouth. A fish steak perhaps? Lowering my eyes a tad, I spotted the common house gecko below and it wasn’t hard to fill in the blank. These confrontations are a regular occurrence and the day geckos usually win.
For more information about geckos, go to geckoweb.org.
From a gecko’s point of view
Two gold dust day geckos spot each other on a ti plant. Such frequent, daily encounters can be matter of life and death. More often, they result in a clarification of the pecking order in a given territory.
Graham's Island 