A long way from its home, a small alligator was rescued by a Massachusetts fisherman one Tuesday after it was occasionally spotted in and out of the Westfield River, over a period of months.

Jeremy White, a worker for the state’s department of conservation and recreation, said he saw a video of the alligator on the news and decided he was going to see it for himself, The Boston Globe reported.

White drove his boat to the area in the river where the alligator was spotted, but couldn’t see it, and decided to throw in a fishing line. Then the alligator appeared and White pushed closer to it.

He said the reptile was “trying to warm up in the sun because its eyes were closed. I was able to get up right next to it, so I just reached out and grabbed it.”

According to West Springfield Animal Control, the reptile is in good condition and is in the care of the state’s environmental police.

It wasn’t clear how the 3-foot (1-meter) alligator appeared in the western Massachusetts area known as the Berkshires, the newspaper reported. American alligators typically inhabit the southeast, and the North is generally too cold for tropical reptiles.

White said he named the alligator Rambo, after Sylvester Stallone’s infamous action character because of how long it had survived the cold New England water.