4000. Esplanade Forecourt Garden - Oriental Garden Lizard sightings on Oct 18, 2019 and Nov 15, 22, 2019

Oct 16, 2019. 10am. My very first sighting. 

Tree 1.  Oct 16, 2019,one day before Kun Yim's birthday

Tree 1

 

Nov 15, 2019. Friday. Evening 6 pm
I did some research in the 11th floor room of National Library Board, Victoria Street. I visited The Esplanade, doubting I would see any lizards there. I did see 3. One lizard was on the same tree (Tree 1) but on the trunk.

Nov 15, 2019.  6 pm sighting. Brown colour.

Nov 22, 2019.  Friday.  Morning 10 am
A bright and sunny blue-sky morning.  I did not expect to see the lizard on Tree 1 again. He was partially visible on the side of the pole. I nearly missed seeing it.  It scrambled down the pole after seeing me clicking him lying on the pole looking upwards. Within a few seconds, it reversed and moved up the pole to further up the tree branches.

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Oct 18, 2019. Friday.  Day after Kuan Yim Tan.

The gardener who had worked for 3 years in the Esplanade Forecourt Garden told me it is difficult to view any Oriental Garden Lizard as they are shy and will disappear into the bush or hedge.

"There should be over 100 such lizards," I could see that the Garden has sufficient garden for them to breed.

"Only around 10-20," he said. "They always stay on the same tree!"
"Have you photographed any?"
"No way. By the time I take out the handphone, it has disappeared."




I managed to see two other lizards today. One was a yellow one hidden inside the bush. Its movement under the bright morning sunlight attracted my attention.

The other one was high up on the tree (Tree 2) and spent some time there.

Tree 2. Around 11 am, Oct 18, 2019   Esplanade Forecourt Garden

Hedge. A quick movement

Breed at one year of age. Female lays 10-20 eggs inside the hollows of trees or soil. 

It takes 8-9 weeks for the young to hatch. Bright red throats may be seen in the malesduring the breeding season.