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Old 04-06-2022, 08:13 AM
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Originally Posted by spinner1001 View Post
My doorbell camera caught this big gator wandering to my front door this morning around 545am. The location is in Marsh Bend adjacent to Hog Eye Preserve. Good thing I was not going out for the paper in my slippers.

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I have lived in The Villages for 17 years. This is not the first report of alligators in the resident's driveways, etc. Note that it is mating season, and the adult alligators are looking for a mate.

"According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the courtship process for the state's more than one million alligators begins in April. Mating then happens in May or June before females build a nest and deposit about 32 to 46 eggs."