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booger
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Well if you enjoyed the first batch, I have more!
After I made some tweaks to the game camera, and the temperature rose a bit, they became more active and the camera captured a few good photo's. I whittled 400+ images down to a few.
Below:
This is a picture of the (presumed) female resting, geting some morning sun.
Below:
This is the big head (presumed) male displaying courtship to woo the female into the water for some gator "activity". He will raise his head and make a shuddering/growling sound. Notice his tail is partially out of the water on the left. This big dude is easily 12' long and 500+ pounds. (That's real size/weight not Swamp People sizing [:D]) I have seen him many times. Quite a lizard.
Below:
This is a better pic of the smaller female, she's on the move.
We are never lacking for redneck entertainment here!!!![8D][8D][8D]
After I made some tweaks to the game camera, and the temperature rose a bit, they became more active and the camera captured a few good photo's. I whittled 400+ images down to a few.
Below:
This is a picture of the (presumed) female resting, geting some morning sun.
Below:
This is the big head (presumed) male displaying courtship to woo the female into the water for some gator "activity". He will raise his head and make a shuddering/growling sound. Notice his tail is partially out of the water on the left. This big dude is easily 12' long and 500+ pounds. (That's real size/weight not Swamp People sizing [:D]) I have seen him many times. Quite a lizard.
Below:
This is a better pic of the smaller female, she's on the move.
We are never lacking for redneck entertainment here!!!![8D][8D][8D]
Comments
W.D.
Lived in FLA for nine yrs and saw some that big around the bass fishing lake [^]
serious very Nice photos thanks for posting ,I never seen one that big in the wild (when visiting our southern states ). pretty rare here in Ohio [:D]
are you going to post photos like Nunn with the turtles ??? having at it [:D]
During severe drought these "holes", as we call them, shrink to next to nothing, that's when the younger males essentially get pushed out or else they will get eaten by the territorial big males. We have had six footers in the front yard looking for a place to be during those times.[8]
We've lived here about 20 years and we do worry about the dogs. We have had one dog and one cat disappear. Now it could have been a long list of bad juju that may have got 'em........coyotes, rattlers & cottonmouths, bobcats (they will kill a domestic cat lickety split), deer hunters, car maybe. So far I haven't caught our dogs on the camera but it is a legitimate worry (especially for my wife who worries about everything)
Here is a drought pic, can you find the big male?
Cool photos!!
Capt. Jack Sparrow.
Damn, and I was sniveling about pachyderms in the petunia's.[;)]
W.D.
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