Birthday Baby Smauglings . . .

[lavendertook]

A very happy birthday to my dear friends jan_u_wine and addie71! I bet no one's brought you a skink for your birthday before, so here's something new for you on your birthday--little smauglings to light the birthday candles. Knowing you are both fond of bright blue things, I hope you enjoy their neon blue tails as much as I do.


This little skink brings you the letter "C". C for companions, clever, charming, caring, and for celtic knot work. You can see where those scribes got their ideas for illuminated fanciful creatures forming letters, can't you?




These guys are about 3 or four inches long--the tail being more of their length. These are very clever or lucky ones.


These are baby five-lined skinks I met last June and July. The blue will fade as they get older. All the skinks I've seen this month have been adults and so don't have such bright blue tails.


These babies are too curious and ferocious and stupid for camouflage to do them much good, so the bright blue tails protect them by being a decoy. Predators will leap for their tails, which will snap off in their jaws and allow the little skinks to get away. They'll grow new tails, but probably not as long and blue. However, they'll have a better gauge now of what they can eat, and what is likely to eat them instead.

I hope there was yummy cake for your birthdays for you to eat, and not the reverse. That's all we can ask for these days. :-P *hugs*

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Aren't they miraculous creatures? (-: