Daniel Sollenberger

Yeah, the top animal is the green anole.

That's one of our most common lizards.

Found pretty much statewide, really common in gardens and home areas.

It is one of our skinks, probably a five-line skink, but there's a couple other species that look similar.

Green tree frog.

The things that are using her yard in Lawrenceville are very adaptable, common things, things that can tolerate a wide range of conditions.

They're fine living in neighborhoods and homes.

They can live under

you know, the deck on your porch or clump of cattails next to a retention pond.

You know, I guess I would ask her, has anything changed in your neighborhood or your yard in that period of time?

You know, there are things that you can do in your yard

intentionally or unintentionally that tend to make better wildlife habitat.

You know, like if you put in a goldfish pond in metro Atlanta, you're going to get tree frogs and stuff using it.

Uh-huh.

So things like cutting your grass very frequently, keeping it very short and neat.

If you have flower beds...

Around your home, either don't have those or keep the shrubs and things trimmed so there's not layers of vegetation all the way to the ground.

Make sure you don't have any rock piles, piles of limbs, piles of leaves, things like that.

Just places for animals to hide.

These are all terrible ideas, in my opinion.