Cranes escorting an alligator back to the water

those cranes have murder in their eyes. they've done this before.

I just googled if they eat tiny alligators and was shocked 😅 I had no idea!!

Oh yeah, they will eat about anything. I've seen them going through the shrubs and stuff at a cracker barrel eating lizards.

This is the most Florida comment I've ever read.

Florida man, so, expected I guess, thank you.

I'm from Florida too! It was wild the first time I saw Sandhills here because I was use to seeing them by the thousand in Colorado. It's their biggest mating place so seeing only one or two on the side of a busy road was weird for me.

The number of people I know who’ve moved from Florida to Colorado or Colorado to Florida is astonishing. Give me big mountains or give me warm water and white sand beaches, nothing in between.

The winter is the perfect time to move because it gives one time to acclimate before the humidity and heat become suffocating.

Add any combo of meth, titties, contraband and naked and you get bonus points.

I was at Cracker Barrel smoking meth in the bushes with my titties out and saw a crane eating an alligator ! Yep, sounds like Florida.

replace, "in the bushes" with "outside the local seven eleven" and you have yourself something i actually encountered. (I wasn't the one smoking, just a passerby lol)

He could have said the restaurant was Hooters and you would have had all of that.

My dad has a video on his phone of one eating a huge rat. Terror birds.

You gotta post it. I aggressively want this video

What's a cracker barrel eating lizard?

And here I am, still trying to figure out the cracker barrel. I'm pretty sure it can't be a literal barrel of crackers but is it another name for a trash can or maybe place name or..? I'm too busy wrapping gifts to go down the rabbit hole barrel of crackers

To be fair, I don't think proper grammar would have made it any clearer because English isn't my first language and I don't live in the US 😁

It’s a chain restaurant that used to have little ponds at most locations. Now they don’t bother with the water but many old locations exist. I grew up feeding bits of leftover pancake to fish.

It's just an elderly lizard with an affinity for sitting in rocking chairs and playing triangular golf tee games while snackin on some chicken fried steak.

was getting that impression the way they hovered over it. They looked like they were trying to assess if the gator had grown too big to eat or not. Looked sooooo yummy, but... may have left it in the pond too long.

And here I thought they were spreading out their wings to help block traffic. "We have a gator with low visibility here people. Don't come down here."
It’s also helpful that these birds are so endangered in that area that hitting them in traffic is a Super Big Crime No No and they somehow know this and will just dominate entire roads for their purposes as they so desire.

I absolutely adore Sandhill Cranes. But make no mistake...they are dinosaurs, through and through. They will eat anything they can get their beaks on. They're also not afraid of people; they're protected, and it's illegal to touch or harm them, and it's like they know it, and will mock you. I've literally seen them walk right up to people having lunch outside at a picnic table, and yank their bag of chips out of their hand. They will eat small alligators, fish, bugs, mice, anything.