Blue tongue (lizard), again ...

These lizards come, and they go a wandering somewhere for a few weeks sometimes.  Or they just end up in another part of the garden where I don't get to see them; maybe out the front 'mongst all the shrubbery.

Stumpy without the tail -- is often sighted in this spot just outside the back door, so when I noticed it there again this morning I went and got the camera for some snapshots. 

 looking a little unimpressed?

 

 This was where it started ...it's just checking out to be sure there's no stranger-danger

 

 well, there was me to account for; decisions, decisions

 

 but I guess I'm considered a push-over. 

This one seems to be carrying a couple of reptile ticks near to the ear canal.  On it's other side they are buried in the ear canal.  I've read up online and it is suggested that they will eventually kill the host by sucking blood and progressively poisoning what's left; oh dear.  Last year's photographs showed the ticks up also, so I'm unsure quite how long this progression takes place.  Nor do I know how long the ticks have been there to date, maybe long before I started taking photographs.

 

 

 about here seems fine, where I can flatten out and pick up some solar charging

 

 this way's better apparently

 

nope, maybe over here.
 The tail end for Stumpy.

and this one the other day was also out sunning but luckily still has its tail.

 

Notation:  Often young blue-tongues if picked up by a kookaburra will escape their wrath by dropping their tail

More reading can be found this fact sheet/blue-tongue lizards