St. Augustine Alligator Farm
Alligators below on a live webcam, a wild wading-bird rookery nesting above them since 1893.
About this view
The St. Augustine Alligator Farm has been open since 1893, which makes it one of the oldest attractions in Florida. The live webcam looks over its swamp boardwalk: alligators stacked on the banks below, and a wild wading-bird colony nesting in the trees directly above them.
That arrangement is not an exhibit, it is a bargain the birds made. Herons, egrets and roseate spoonbills nest here by choice, because raccoons and snakes will not cross a pond full of alligators to raid a nest. So you watch chicks being fed a few metres above the animals that make it safe.
Florida runs on Eastern Time, UTC−5 and UTC−4 in summer. Rookery season runs from roughly March to June and it is the reason to watch: courtship plumage, nest building, then a canopy of noise. Outside it the alligators carry the frame on their own, mostly by not moving.
