Naturewatch - your course

[billyg]

Wondering what sort of wild birds and beasts you see wandering across the fairways in a typical round.

In the last two weeks weve seen...


Rabbits- adults and young
Hares - adults

Mallard ducks
Mandarin ducks
Coots
Moorhens
Canada Geese
Herons
Swans - currently nesting just off the 18th fairway- scary
Blackbirds
Grey Wagtails
Pied Wagtails
Bluet1ts
Great t1ts(no laughing at the back Smithers)
Pheasants
Kestrels (we think from reading up)
Crows
Magpies

and heard but not seen ...

owls
woodpeckers
cookoos

these beasties ceratinly make the walking more entertaining. You gents(and ladies)living further out must have seen some interesting and different stuff?

 

[rgs]

Billyg-you and your partners are well versed in Ornithology.

Have noticed a few hares, swans and ducks wandering around our course-we have a number of lakes which make for ideal nesting areas for the swans and ducks.

Was playing recently and noticed 2 swans wander from the lake near the 4th green and walk towards the lake close to the 6th green, the walk took the swans down the fifth fairway, a par 5 hole, not swans dont walk gracefully nor quickly, could not understand why they did not fly-after walking about 100 yds they eventually flew the other 100 yds in less than half the time they took to walk the first 100yds.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

This weekend

Fallow deer
Roe deer (juvenile male - first antlers and juvenile female)
Red Kite
Buzzard
Magpie
Pheasants (male/female)
Geese (Canadian/Egyptian)
Mallard ducks
Coots
Robin
Blue Tit
Chaffinch
Pied Wagtail
Green Woodpecker
Cuckoo (heard not seen)
Rabbits
Swan

 

[viscount17]

Muncjac deer
Rabbits
Hare
Fox
Magpie
Pheasants (male/female)
Peacock
Swans
Geese (Canadian/Egyptian/Greylag)
Ducks - Mallard and others
Coots
Moorhen
Cormorants
Great Crested Grebe
Gulls and terns - several species
Blackbird
Crow
Rook
Thrush - don't know species
Robin
Blue Tit,
Chaffinch
Sparrow, Tree and House
Wagtail, Pied and Grey
Green Woodpecker
. . . and several unknown ubiquitous 'small/smallish brown birds'

Carp - not versed in the species
1/2 an eel

known to exist but not personally seen
mink
otter