Oystercatchers on the course

[Tashyboy]

Played today and I got down to our 14th green which has a pond running about 150yds down the lhs. I got about 30yds from the green and thought what heck is that. Black and white bird with a flippin great beak. It took off and the black and white colours on its back were gorgeous. For a minute I was watching three of them and just forget about me game.
Thing is I always thought of them as coastal birds. That’s oyster catchers and Mandarin ducks ave seen on the course for the first time this year.
Do like me wildlife on the course.

 

[KenL]

Lovely birds. They are coastal birds but can go inland to nest.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/oystercatcher/

 

[CliveW]

Bloody pests! We have some on the farm and they fly at all times of the night screeching as they fly. They regularly waken us up at ungodly hours of the night.

 

[Tashyboy]

Bloody pests! We have some on the farm and they fly at all times of the night screeching as they fly. They regularly waken us up at ungodly hours of the night.

??

 

[KenL]

Bloody pests! We have some on the farm and they fly at all times of the night screeching as they fly. They regularly waken us up at ungodly hours of the night.

Get some earplugs or sleeping tabs.?

 

[Foxholer]

Craigielaw was a great course to watch wildlife!
Not only were the 'native' hares the logo of the course and entertaining to watch, but early evening/sunset was a great time to watch the many different flavours of geese swoop into Aberlady Bay. Plenty of other birdlife on the hunt for evening food, or simply twittering from a great height!
The Shire London, where I frequently play, also has an incredibly wide range of birdlife. Not only a wide range of Raptors, from sparrow-hawks to magnificent Red Kites, but Swans, Cormorants, and Geese (unfortunately too many Canadian ones, but quite a few Egyptians too) abound. Plenty of fish - carp, trout etc - in the water features too!

 

[Voyager EMH]

Oystercatchers have been seen at Thornton reservoir near me from time to time and this is about as far from the sea as you can get in England.
If the water level drops, freshwater mussels can be found around the exposed shores. These are an endangered species, but the oystercatchers don't care about that!

 

[Bratty]

We have a pair of red tailed kites at Westerham GC, and at times they fly really low. Beautiful birds and always make me pause and smile.
I sometimes get the rangefinder out and take a closer look; I never laser them though I hasten to add, just to be very clear in that point!

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Bloody pests! We have some on the farm and they fly at all times of the night screeching as they fly. They regularly waken us up at ungodly hours of the night.

Like chickens then, but without the flying bit ?

 

[CliveW]

Like chickens then, but without the flying bit ?

No, like chickens but with the flying bit!

 

[patricks148]

We get a lot on the course at Nairn, quite a few nest on the course and sometimes the club has to rope off the nests if they are close to the playing area, if you get too close the parents fly straight at you. Some of the locals call them Nairn Penguins ?

 

[hovis]

Saw there for the first time when I played gleneagles. Very pretty

 

[Foxholer]

Just one of the 'common' birds that were a feature of a pre Sunday Roast wander around Wellington's Greta Point Tavern area when it was actually at Greta Point. Always busy investigating moveable objects to check for anything edible. May annoy farmers with their shrieks, but they were far less aggressive, at least when feeding, than seagulls, so viewed them as 'better'. Always amused to see the occasional (Rugby supporting?) all black variety! No doubt, there were plenty at Aberlady Bay too, but hardly noticeable in amongst the hordes!

 

[KenL]

There is a club that has an Oystercatcher as its motif.
Who knows where it is?

 

[Banchory Buddha]

There is a club that has an Oystercatcher as its motif.
Who knows where it is?

Machrahanish


Which club has the Puffin as it's motif?

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Machrahanish


Which club has the Puffin as it's motif?

Beat me to it ?

 

[KenL]

Machrahanish


Which club has the Puffin as it's motif?

Good one. Somewhere on Shetland?

 

[Foxholer]

Machrahanish


Which club has the Puffin as it's motif?

Durness
And Bandon Dunes

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Lovely birds. They are coastal birds but can go inland to nest.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/oystercatcher/

We are 10 miles inland rom Turnberry and when we moved here in 1998 Oystercatchers, Curlews and cuckoos were regular 'nesters'.
Have not heard them for at least 5 years now.
Curlews are rare now, they were deemed game birds until 1953 and could be legally shot.

 

[Banchory Buddha]

Good one. Somewhere on Shetland?

Good guess, but Durness