Alligator mississippiensis

Translation - American Alligator! And we have one (?) in the pond! So we were out cleaning the algae from the pond and there it was, just chillin' I wasn't paying attention to the setting on the camera but I did get a couple of ok shots, we were really close to it. He or she was about 2.5 to 3 feet long from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail.

My wildlife story was going to be about this squirrel that was raiding the bird feeder....boring, Alligator wins!