Lizard common (Lacerta vivipara) warming up on a board walk heated by sun. Grey brown greenish body with dark patterns along its body and long tail

---

This lizard was absorbing heat from the sun and from the wooden boardwalk it is lying on and staying close to the edges for a quick escape from danger. The tail is long and curved around to near the head of the lizard.

---

Size: 4259px × 2839px
Location: Thursley nature reserve UK
Photo credit: © Stephen Iles / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: absorbing, attract, belly, blooded, board, boardwalk, body, breeding, broad, brown, carnivorous, cold, colors, colours, common, complete, contact, copy, cute, edge, england, extracting, feeds, flat, format, green, grey, habitat, heat, hot, hugging, image, insects, invertibrates, lacerta, landscape, late, life, lizard, long, maximum, nature, photography, planks, predator, red, reptile, reserve, season, small, soaking, southern, space, spots, spreading, spring, sun, sunbathing, surface, tail, throat, thursley, timber, uk, variable, vivipara, walk, warm, warmed, warming, wetland, white, wildlife, wood