Great Basin Whiptail Lizard

This Great Basin Whiptail is the latest addition to the Cascade Ramblings Critters section, a proof positive that I look at other things than just birds all the time.  Buster has taken a shine to lizards, after all there are not that many squirrels here in the desert where we are for him to chase, but he has picked-up on the idea that lizards hang around the creosote bushes, so our walks mean he checks out each creosote bush for lizards. Today he found two of these medium sized lizards out enjoying the sun.  Larger than the Side-blotched Lizards he has found out on the trail, these were along the sidewalk, and lucky for the lizards, or most probably Buster, they were on the other side of a chain link fence.