A long lizard trail

We’re getting to that time of year when we wonder what things must look like at night, given all the tracks we see in daylight with no evidence of what caused them. Generally, lizard rails cross the sandy trails as directly as possible, from one side to the other. Lately, though, a few seem to have changed their minds. This was an extraordinarily long “exposed” track.

We actually haven’t seen any good-sized lizards in quite a while.

Because of course

Teros are common here: raucous, aggressive when they feel threatened, and apparently loving to park themselves in the middle of things. Not all that long ago, they appeared to be thinking about building a nest where I was standing. Not only in the middle of the path, but in the sitting area. Happily they changed their mind. I was thinking I’d need to make “detour” (desvío) signs to steer pedestrians away from the nest.

For the past two or three years, a tero couple (same ones?) have had chicks in the spring, two out of three of which survived to adulthood.

BAM!

The blue tape on our glass sliding door is at human eye level. The lower tape is at dog eye level. We did have a human walk into the door and break it years ago, and the dogs tend to go crazy when they see birds in the backyard and I don’t want them slamming into the glass (plate glass BTW; outlawed for this use in the USA 50 years ago).

Unfortunately, the pigeon paid no attention to either. RIP.

March lily

Amaryllis belladonna,[2] the Jersey lily,[3] belladonna-lilynaked-lady-lily,[4] or March lily,[5] is a plant species native to Cape Province in South Africa but widely cultivated as an ornamental. It is reportedly naturalized in many places: CorsicaPortugal, the AzoresMadeira, the Canary Islands, the Scilly Isles of Great Britain, the Democratic Republic of the CongoAscension IslandAustraliaNew ZealandMexicoCubaHaiti, the Dominican RepublicChileCaliforniaTexasLouisianaMississippiMichigan and the Juan Fernández Islands.[6][7]

Description

Perennial bulbous geophyte with one to two erect solid stems which appear in late summer. The inflorescence bears 2–12 showy fragrant funnel-shaped flowers on a ‘naked’ (leafless) stem, which gives it the common name of naked-lady-lily. The pink flowers which may be up to 10cm in length, appear in the autumn before the leaves (hysteranthy) which are narrow and strap shaped.[4][5]