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csziggy

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2. Here is what I am used to hearing - not so much a bellow as a rumble

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 11:50 PM

Mar 2015

It's cool how the water vibrates above their body!

Well, when we first bought this farm, we'd hear them down in the swamp. That sound carries - the swamp is at the back of our 60 acres, about a quarter of a mile from the house. After a couple of bad droughts, we stopped hearing them - I know we had some smaller gators travel across our ridge to the next watershed but the big guys may have traveled south down the watershed that ends up in the St. Marks River system.

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Alligator Mating Season Is A Noisy Time In Florida [View all] Panich52 Mar 2015 OP

I guess these critters are important for our ecosystem, but I prefer them as handbags. nt valerief Mar 2015 #1

Here is what I am used to hearing - not so much a bellow as a rumble csziggy Mar 2015 #2

It's not just the alligators, it's the tubas ... eppur_se_muova Mar 2015 #3

Grrr. Couldn't get vid to play from huffpo & couldn't find it on youtube Panich52 Mar 2015 #4

I normally avoid HuffPo (like pouring molasses in my browser) but couldn't find ... eppur_se_muova Mar 2015 #5