Bobby Wummer Photography

05/29/2026

🐊 Watch your step! These modern-day dinosaurs are taking a stroll. This video is titled "Alligators on Walkabout". My trail camera videos capture these incredible reptiles moving across the landscapes, in and out of small ponds. See how they navigate their surroundings outside of the water.

Alligators leave dried-up water holes to find deeper, permanent water sources or to reach groundwater. Because they are ectothermic (cold-blooded) apex predators, they need water to regulate their body temperature and hunt. During droughts, they are forced to go on the move in search of new water holes. During droughts especially in Florida you will see these alligators on the move.

Alligators will typically travel between 5 to 10 miles in search of fresh water or a new mate, though some males have been known to roam as far as 15 miles. During severe droughts, mating season, or after hurricanes, it is not unusual to find them crossing roads or turning up miles away from permanent water sources.

Short-distance moves: Many alligators are perfectly comfortable walking short overland distances (often over a mile) to relocate between nearby ponds, swamps, or residential lakes.

Long-distance moves: During severe droughts or displacement events (like after a hurricane pushes saltwater into a freshwater swamp), they have been tracked covering 10 to 20 or more miles to find comfortable surroundings.

Traveling conditions: They prefer to undertake these long-haul, overland treks at night when it is cooler, hiding in brush or shaded areas during the day to avoid overheating.

If you are dealing with a wandering alligator, your local wildlife authority or state commission is the best point of contact. If you live in Florida, you can use the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) or contact their Nuisance Alligator Hotline to report a gator that poses a threat to people, pets, or property.

05/29/2026

I set up this big log and propped it up against the tree that my trail camera was on. I was specifically trying to capture a Florida Bobcat walking straight up this log and get up close and personal with with trail camera. I set this up before the heavy rains came. I was gambling that when the water rose in the swamp, this log would be a perfect walking plank for a Bobcat to get out and above the water. And here is the proof in this trail camera video.

05/28/2026

"Saw a gorgeous 'stray' on my trail camera. 🐶
My brain immediately went: 'CAN I PET THAT DOG?! 'My common sense said: 'Sir, that is a spicy forest puppy. 'Nature is completely unfair for making wild coyotes look so friend-shaped. 😅"

Some of my favorite Florida Coyote trail camera videos from the Florida wild.

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05/27/2026

Who doesn't love to see baby wild piglets? These little wild piglets are probably just weeks old. Another brand new wildlife video caught by my Browning trail camera, which I set up in a dried up Cypress Slough.

Wild hogs in Florida typically produce litters ranging from 4 to 8 piglets. Because they have a short gestation period of roughly 115 days, sows are capable of producing 1 to 2 litters per year, which results in rapid population growth.

05/24/2026

PLEASE DON'T FEED THE ALLIGATORS! In this video I will show you why this is so important both to humans and to the alligators themselves. Feeding wild alligators is highly dangerous, ecologically harmful, and strictly illegal across the southern United States. When people feed these reptiles, the animals quickly lose their natural fear of humans and learn to associate people directly with an easy meal.

In this video I came across some tourists in the back of a gas station near a small canal. They were all standing around watching a small youngster alligator who had come out of the canal. They had not been feeding him, but I put my GO PRO on an extension pole and decided to do a short educational wildlife video.

This small alligator heard my SD cards that I had in a plastic baggy shake and he actually thought that they were some kind of food. You can see that he really has NO FEAR of humans at this point. This is bad people! This is when wild animals begin to trust humans and that's when bad things can happen.

🐊 Why You Must Never Feed Alligators 🐊

Loss of Fear: Wild alligators naturally stay away from humans. Feeding them strips away this protective boundary, causing them to approach shorelines, docks, and people.

Aggressive Behavior: Over time, fed gators develop food aggression. They will aggressively target neighborhood pets, small children, and anyone walking near the water's edge.

A Sentenced Animal: Wildlife officials have a strict saying: "A fed gator is a dead gator." Once an alligator becomes habituated to humans and poses a safety threat, it is classified as a nuisance and is almost always euthanized rather than relocated.

Severe Legal Penalties: Intentionally feeding a wild alligator carries heavy consequences. For instance, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) enforces penalties up to a $500 fine and 60 days in jail, while other coastal states treat it as a criminal misdemeanor.

05/24/2026

Do bear attractants really work? I took a spray bottle of Vanilla scented bear attractant with me back in 2021, when I deployed my trail cameras up in the Ocala National Forest. I placed a Vanilla scented rag underneath a log about ten feet in front of my trail camera. I additionally sprayed the vanilla scented bear attractant along the entire log, or in this case a downed tree. Within hours after spraying the attractant this huge Mother black bear arrives with two baby cubs. What happens next was epic!

05/22/2026

If you sprayed vanilla scent on the ground, how would the animals react? Well let's see just how a few of the animals reacted to this vanilla scent. Here is a short trail camera video of just a few of the animals that did show a definite interest in the area where I sprayed the vanilla.

05/22/2026

This Wild Hog has way more than an 8 second ride!!

Florida feral hogs (or wild swine) mate year-round due to the state's warm climate, with peak breeding often occurring in late spring and autumn. Sows can reproduce as early as 6 to 8 months of age, averaging two litters a year with 4 to 12 piglets per litter, leading to rapid population growth.

Wild hogs (feral swine) are an invasive species occurring in all of Florida's 67 counties. With an estimated population exceeding 500,000, they are highly adaptable and cause significant ecological damage by rooting up soil with their snouts. They are also known to occasionally invade residential neighborhoods in search of food.

05/16/2026

I use my trail cameras in video mode only. They work rain or shine, as I do as well. Keeping you all entertained with the animals making cameos as they walk night or day, while my trail cameras are capturing all the action.

One of the best ways to capture great wildlife photography is by positioning your trail cam at the eye level of the species you’re tracking. For bobcats, that means approximately 1-1.5 feet off the ground, while larger animals like deer and bear require a higher placement to capture the entire animal in the frame. If placing your trail camera on a game trail, set it at around a 45-degree angle perpendicular to the trail. This way, the animal stays in the field of view for quite some time and your trail cam will capture the front and side of the animal.

05/10/2026

Heading back into the way way back time machine. Bringing you a trail camera video compilation from back in 2020. I always love to go back and look at some of those great times, that Lisa Balius and I spent together out in the swamplands of Florida. It never ever gets old.

In this trail camera video you will see just how much we love to put these wildlife adventures, and trail camera pick up videos together, and then to share them with you all. In this episode you will see: Florida Whitetail deer, raccoons, wild hogs, hawks, snakes, bobcats, and much much more. And of course all the shenanigans that go along with getting out there putting these wildlife videos together for you all to enjoy on your video and TV devices.