SNAKES

Anybody got any Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at there course? These guys are rare but cool as beans!
 
I didn't realise that Red Kites were so common in Berkshire and Bucks. There's plenty of them in South West Wales, in some places they are more common than Buzzards down here.

They began a releasing program 10 miles down the road from me a number of years ago. Red Kites are 10 a penny around here. You're almost more likely to see a kite than are a blackbird!!
 
Golf courses can be great places not only for wild life but for flora and fauna as well.
As we have a number of lakes and streams around the course we have our share of Swans, Ducks, Herons, Pheasants, Hares and at this time of the year ducklings waddling after their mother.

its a joy to walk a golf course. We are so lucky in so many ways playing this game.
 
The snakes in the photo look as if they're having a feast on eggs in that nest.

You might be right, but if you look close the grass grows through almost all the area and I think its just a basking spot after a slap up meal at Mrs miggins pie shop. Ive nevr noticed a nest there............ :Dmaybe because of the snakes :D :D
 
HNJ.....you bad boy.....I'm petrified of snakes!!!

We don't have snakes, but we have all sorts of birds, sadly very few eagles on my course.....

(I'll get my coat).

What we do have around here is/are birds of prey. I've flown a few in my time....Harris Hawks mainly.
Occasionally, I have to clear up 1,245,328 feathers from caught + killed Pigeons left in my garden.....by Sparrow Hawks.
 
HNJ.....you bad boy.....I'm petrified of snakes!!!

We don't have snakes, but we have all sorts of birds, sadly very few eagles on my course.....

(I'll get my coat).

What we do have around here is/are birds of prey. I've flown a few in my time....Harris Hawks mainly.
Occasionally, I have to clear up 1,245,328 feathers from caught + killed Pigeons left in my garden.....by Sparrow Hawks.

Hey now you are talking, you lucky bleeder, I love birds of prey, fantastic! envy you. ;)
 
I HATE snakes!!! And i'm ashamed to admit whilst playing in a corperate event at Hampton Court 2 years ago, we were playing the 13th i think and i just missed the green a couple of yards left landing in some thick grass, i waded in there looking for my ball until i saw a snake slithering through the grass!!! I jumped out of there sharpish and went and looked elsewhere leaving my playing partners to search near the ssssssssnake! Recounting this has bought me out in a cold sweat!
 
For those that don't like snakes, a word of caution

my brother-in-law lived in the Forest of Dean backing onto a GC (sorry I don't know which one).

he kept two Burmese Pythons and an Anaconda under the stairs! (as well as several very large spiders).

They were all quite long, I've had them draped round my shoulders and their heads and tails were both resting comfortably on the ground (I'm 5'11 so at least 12-14 ft)

For exercise he let them out in the garden but they frequently got loose and more than once he found them curled up in a bunker.

Now the caution . . .

one day the anaconda got loose - and he has never found it!
(it has never been reported)
 
one day the anaconda got loose - and he has never found it!
(it has never been reported)

Maybe it teamed up with Gustavo's Cobra.....maybe there are little Cobranaconda babies wreaking havoc on the fairways somewhere?

"I'm declaring my ball unplayable, it seems to have made friends with a small entourage of Cobranacondas"

You hear it every day...... :)


(Got to go to sleep....zzz....)
 
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