I was in the garden a week or so ago proudly showing my new little plantation of blackcurrant and gooseberry bushes to Audrey, when she said "look along the flower border there's a little lizard". Assuming it was a Common Wall Lizard, which are very common here, I had a cursory glance and saw something rather dark and stocky. I fact Audrey remarked that it looked rather like an animal scat. I got by binocs and checked it: a juvenile Green Lizard. The first juvenile seen in the garden - thanks to Audrey of course who is much more observant than me...at least of things on the ground! So I just finished off some work I was doing else where in the garden and returned with a camera. Inevitably it had gone, the sun had moved round, it was warm enough and had retreated into the vegetation. I thought "oh well I'll just wait for the next sunny morning and photograph it then". Unfortunately bad weather set in and I didn't get a chance for several days to check the situation, but unfortunately it hadn't returned. I've tried since on sunny mornings and decided that we must have seen the lizard on its last basking session before hibernation. So I will have to wait until next spring now! Anyway to finish off my article, I photographed this stripy female Common Wall Lizard (the males are spotty) nearby lately, at least they are still basking on sunny days!