Southern Florida (1 Viewer)

[anonymousbirder]

I'm in Southern Florida at the moment, and I've seen several new species: Commom Gallinule, Purple Gallinule, Limpkin, Anhinga.

But I took a boat tour into the Everglades. We saw some alligators, but not many. The visitors behind me were annoyed and asked things like, "Isn't there anything they can do to call them up?" 🤦‍♀️
I have no idea whether they thought there was something like an alligator whistle tour guides could use.

 

[THE_FERN]

May be throw one of them in?

 

[lgonz1008]

Advice from a local birder and guide, you're never getting common sense from the tourists taking the boat tours. If you want to see the alligators and other wildlife up close, take a drive around Big Cypress or walk through trails in Everglades National Park like Anhinga Trail and Shark Valley, then the animals will be so close that you need to walk around them.

 

[stevefloyd]

Drive down highway 41 for 30 miles then theres a small river that runs paralel with the road ..wall to wall aligators