This gold dust day gecko looks suitably unimpressed at someone getting down to its level to confront it face to face.
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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.
For more information about geckos, go to geckoweb.org.
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.
Baby gecko on a basil plant
Normally I take a dim view of anything found on the basil plants, but this little gold dust day gecko was inordinately cute. It wasn’t doing the plant any harm and might even have helped by snapping up a bug or two.
Stump-toed Gecko
This gecko is nocturnal and isn’t often seen out and about during the day. This one was either running late, or had been disturbed from its daytime resting place. Its main identifying feature is that it lacks a claw on the inside digit of its feet. Sadly, in this photo, that feature is hidden on all four feet. C’est la vie.
For more information about this and other geckos, go to geckoweb.org.
Graham's Island 