On June 4, 1953, a friend and I found the nest of a Florida gallinule, Gallinula chloropus cachinnans, near the Beauregard Community, Lee County, in a cove of Lynch Whatley’s lake. The water was about one foot deep, and we were poling a boat near some grass when I happened to see an egg lying in the weeds.
There seemed to be no nest there, but on closer examination I made out the rough outline of the nest.