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Re your lizard, check out the northern fence lizard, Sceloporus undulatus 
hyacinthinus. 

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/sceloporus/s._undulatus_hyacinthinus$narrative.html

http://community.webshots.com/album/14412881PHgKixOgZd

Liz Singley
Kingston, TN
> 
> From: "Anna Varney" <arvarney@xxxxxxx>
> Date: 2002/10/07 Mon PM 06:48:00 EDT
> To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [tn-bird] Mantis tries for hummer?
> 
> As of Monday I still have at least one Ruby-throated visiting feeders.   
> 
> A few days ago, while standing in the back yard close to the hummer feeder I 
> saw that the hummer was getting a bit agitated at something on the tree that 
> the feeder is attached to.  But what?  Looking closer I saw a Preying Mantis 
> gripping the tree truck within inches of the feeder... and the hummingbird.  
> O.k., so I stepped in and relocated the mantis to a tomato plant.  The hummer 
> went on feeding like nothing happened.  Things might have turned out 
> different.  While staying at Nancy Moore's B&B during Labor Day weekend this 
> year, we saw what a Preying Mantis can do!  Pull in a Hummingbird Moth!  
> Nancy intervened on behalf of the moth that evening (=  First time I had ever 
> seen anything like it.
> 
> Sunday birds.  Not much happening.  Red-bellied Woodpeckers quite VOCAL 
> today-all day long.  Had a thrush.  Wasn't a Veery, Wood nor Hermit Thrush.  
> I got a good look at the tail.  It was the same gray-brown color as the wings 
> and back and the spotting on the breast couldn't have been of a Wood Thrush.  
> The lighting was good at times then poor as the bird moved from sunlight to 
> shade on the forest floor.  I'm leaning toward a Swainson's Thrush; the eye 
> ring was strong and the flanks were grayish.
> 
> Second hand observation of a lizard (the husband saw it):  kinda  light 
> puple-ish with a brown tail (?)  By the time I was told about it it was gone. 
>  
>   
> 
> Anna Varney
> Summertown, TN       
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