2nd lizard, March 7th

March 7, Moving a trash bin I find another Plateau lizard in a pile of dead leaves under it. Later I see my first butterfly, a Mourning cloak, flying behind the barn. There are also swarms of Box-elder bugs all over the south-facing wall of the barn.

I learn that the lizard is actually a Plateau lizard, Sceloporus tristichus, and not a subspecies of the Eastern fence lizard.(If the online source can be trusted.)