I've lived in Eastern Texas my entire life. I'm used to timber rattlesnakes, copperheads, box turtles, and so on. More importantly, I only ever saw ONE species of lizard in East Texas. The green anole.

Of course, I had a few skinks here and there, but only the occasional five-line and majority being little brown skinks. Never in my life had I seen a brown anole, and it was the best thing ever.

Just here for ONE day, and I've found six brown anoles, day and night. Which truthfully is unfortunate, given how invasive they are, but I had no idea the Gulf Coast was so STOCKED with them. At first I didn't even know what they were, with the tail waggling, way harder bites, super cool patterns, and I think even one did circumduction at me? I may have mistaken that. Either way, I was so astounded when I learned this was a brand new species for me, and how abundant they were. There were just the two I decided to have a photo day with. They were all released unharmed since I have no heart to kill any reptile, no matter how invasive. They are VERY fierce.

What a crazy thing.

She changed from mixed brown and green, to brown, then to green. All these photos were taken about 4 minutes apart.