Blue Tail Skink

(Note: Blue tail skink emerge from hibernation and mate in the Spring)

Blue tail skink
Suns on a rock
Doesn’t even blink
When he sees the hawk.

Red tail hawk
Talons hard as steel 
Heads for the rock
To catch a lizard meal.

Claws grip tail
Succulent and soft,
But Hawk will fail
When the tail pops off!

Skink runs fast
As the blue tail stays
In Hawk’s grasp
No triumph for today.

Hawk screams loud
Dinner has escaped
Skink feels proud
He’s alive and safe.

“Come get your tail,”
Hawk slyly says to Skink.
Skink just smiles 
And gives a little wink.

“It’s yours now, bird,
A keepsake from our fun.
Autotomy’s my word
I’ll grow another one.”

The gif is from ​https://rainbowsnakes.tumblr.com/post/98991968294/frolicingintheforest-five-lined-skinks-blue.