JHherpetofauna
03-09-04, 07:33 PM
D:\EasyShare\100_0539.JPG
Was out looking for species of Nerodia at this one lake near my house. At the far end was a run off of the lake which went into a drain like housing, which lead to a wide ditch. I was heading back home with 5 Nerodia fasciata pictiventris and saw a juvenile gator letting the current of the lake running off into the drain carry it. I ran along side of the gator until i reached the drain. I ran around the drain and jumped in the ditch. I grabbed the little guy who was about 13-14 inches. I took my camera out to take pictures. I walked over to some shade with the gator in my hand still when i saw a dead gator on the waters edge. He was about the same size of the one i had now and was what looked to be gutted by a bird of some sort or raccoon. I walked somemore and saw another dead gator about 20 feet from the other. I decided to take this little gator to a pond at the end of my street at a nature preserve, because the lake he was in was more mud than water and dries up to just about nothing almost every summer. this gator is in the above picture.
Was out looking for species of Nerodia at this one lake near my house. At the far end was a run off of the lake which went into a drain like housing, which lead to a wide ditch. I was heading back home with 5 Nerodia fasciata pictiventris and saw a juvenile gator letting the current of the lake running off into the drain carry it. I ran along side of the gator until i reached the drain. I ran around the drain and jumped in the ditch. I grabbed the little guy who was about 13-14 inches. I took my camera out to take pictures. I walked over to some shade with the gator in my hand still when i saw a dead gator on the waters edge. He was about the same size of the one i had now and was what looked to be gutted by a bird of some sort or raccoon. I walked somemore and saw another dead gator about 20 feet from the other. I decided to take this little gator to a pond at the end of my street at a nature preserve, because the lake he was in was more mud than water and dries up to just about nothing almost every summer. this gator is in the above picture.