The juvenile, roughly two-foot-long gator was found by a birdwatcher on Aug. 7 at the Cow Meadow Preserve, a 150-acre preserve located in Cow Meadow Park.

On Aug. 7, a Long Island birdwatcher spotted something truly unusual: an alligator. The gator was swimming in a freshwater pond at Cow Meadow Preserve, in the village of Freeport on Long Island. The ...