Our musings of two daughters and life: Collared Lizards

On June 29th our family packed up and traveled west a couple of hours to Mt. Mitchell Heritage Prairie in search of Eastern Collared Lizards. The Prairie is an Audubon of Kansas Wildlife Sanctuary and property. Friends have been sharing their photos and I was truly excited for our girls to see the lizards. Here is a short video detailing their visit. The video was taken a couple days later on July 1st.

As you heard in the video, we were able to see Eastern Collared Lizards and everyone got in on the photo taking. Click on any of the photos to enlarge and see greater details.

Collared Lizard Fans and Paparazzi!

We came home with over 1,900 digital files, most of them being of the Eastern Collared Lizards.

The lizards are quite tolerant of humans, giving photo opportunities to everyone. These are Danielle's photos!!

With three DSLR cameras being utilized there was a premium on the lighter 70-300mm ED lens. It is quite a bit lighter than the 300mm F4 AF lens which quickly tired the girls with its weight. Luckily the girls share.

These are Michaela's photos!!

We walked around the prairie picking up the chigger bites and saw a few other animals as well.

The Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher is large and flashy and captivated everyone's attention. Danielle's photo is on the right.

A few insects such as this Common Checkered Skipper (Left) and Giant Robber Fly (right)

We also saw Variegated Fritillaries and Little Yellow butterflies and an unidentified caterpillar that somehow escaped decent photos from our lenses.

We even took a few photos of ourselves.

Danielle took videos of the lizards also. We pulled out the tripod and both girls had creative input in the video below. Click on the settings in the lower right to change to HD for more detail.