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Photo Diary: St Augustine Alligator Farm Bird Rookery [1]

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Date: 2023-02-09

The alligator lagoon at the St Augustine Alligator Farm is a favored spot for native birds to nest each year: the gators prevent predators like racoons or snakes from reaching the eggs or nestlings.

It’s too early yet for eggs, but everybody was starting their nest-building.

Some photos from the rookery.

For those who don't know, I live in a converted campervan and travel around the country, posting photo diaries of places that I visit. I am currently wintering in St Augustine, Florida.

Boardwalk runs through the rookery

Alligators everywhere

Black Vultures from up north like to winter here

I don’t know if this Ruddy Duck is a visitor from up north, or a Florida native who moved in and made himself at home

Roseate Spoonbill

Nesting material

This looks like a good place

Tri-Color Heron picks a nesting spot

Great Egret in breeding plumage

Starting a nest

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