Finally a Horned Lizard

On Saturday, I went up to Ford Ord to visit with my cousins, aunt and uncle. The plan was to do some mountain biking with my cousins (Will and Aaron) around the Fort Ord area where I had competed in a biking race earlier this year. As we cruised down one of the trails, Aaron called me back to check out a lizard he had found. Sure enough, it was a Coast Horned Lizard! (A.K.A Horney Toad) I had been searching for these lizards a long time but had nothing to show for it. I even spent a lot of the South West Road Trip looking for them, but still came up empty handed. Then I finally end up seeing one very close to home! There was a video taken but the lizard is small and hard to see unless the video is enlarged, but when enlarged, the quality greatly diminishes. So here is a photo: Feel free to click the photo for a larger view!