Stone the crows

[davek]

I had heard people had been having trouble with the crows on our course. Yesterday my mate and I drove off on the 13th ( after he had been telling me he had played with the same ball for 2.5 rounds)then sure enough a crow came down and took his ball from the fairway and away with it!! We went up and agreed roughly where it had taken it from and he played his pitch only for another crow to come down and take his 'second' ball much to my amusement. Then followed plenty of swearing on his part!!
Has anyone else had wildlife troubles?

 

[bobmac]

I used to play at RAF Bruggen in Germany where there used to be a fox which appeared behind the par 5 twelfth green.
It would sit on the bank of the green and wait for your ball
The ladies section used to feed it

 

[beck9965]

I had heard people had been having trouble with the crows on our course. Yesterday my mate and I drove off on the 13th ( after he had been telling me he had played with the same ball for 2.5 rounds)then sure enough a crow came down and took his ball from the fairway and away with it!! We went up and agreed roughly where it had taken it from and he played his pitch only for another crow to come down and take his 'second' ball much to my amusement. Then followed plenty of swearing on his part!!
Has anyone else had wildlife troubles?

Same here and with one of the new Callaway balls too, it was a crow on the 14th fairway, just swooped down and it was gone.

 

[StrangelyBrown]

My Dad once had his ball taken by a dog at the 10th at Prestonfield. No idea where it came from or where it went. No sign of it at all.

 

[need_my_wedge]

Had similar. Tagged up with a guy last year, playing the 9th, he hit right down the middle. When we got to where his ball had landed, it was gone, no sign anywhere. He dropped a new ball, played his second shot. As we were walking up to it, a dirty great crow swooped down, picked it up and flew off. He wasn't a happy chap.

One of the holes at Woburn was renowned for the crows nicking balls. A couple of years back they culled the crows, found the nest and there was apparently a couple of hundred balls sitting in the woods at the base of the tree....

 

[cshaw33]

I had a crow nick my mars bar once when it was in the buggy parked up next to the green. Cant believe that it actually flew into the buggy and done one with my mars bar that i was saving for half time...

 

[Whereditgo]

Saw a squirrel nick off with a bag of nuts out of a guys bag by the 5th Tee much to his disgust and everyone elses amusement.

But my brother losing a ball to an alligator in Florida takes some beating!

 

[doc17]

Crows at Hampton Court Palace GC have even managed to learn how to undo the zips of golf bags. There's part of the course called Crow corner!!

I have had problems with 2 huge crows (bigger than our chickens) attacking my very expensive sliding patio doors. Last year i got up at 5am and hid inside my daughters wendyhouse on the patio with an air rifle and managed to shoot one of them but the pellets just bounced off!! I eventually killed a small one and hung it up on a stake as a warning and they didn't come back for a month or so. They eventually did and in numbers so i've done some research and there's a company in the USA selling a cd called Crow Be Gone which you play really loud and it scares them off. There's a warning attached to the purchase link stating 'Make sure you buy the correct CD' apparently they also sell a cd called 'Crow Be Here'!!! I bloody hate crows!!!

 

[pokerjoke]

But my brother losing a ball to an alligator in Florida takes some beating!



That must have been close is he alright.Do you call him HITLER.

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[drawboy]

I had a crow nick my mars bar once when it was in the buggy parked up next to the green. Cant believe that it actually flew into the buggy and done one with my mars bar that i was saving for half time...

That's just cracked me up big time.

 

[Guns]

How would a crow pass a golf ball that would hurt!!!!!!!!!

 

[need_my_wedge]

When I lived in Japan, one of the train lines had a problem whereby trains were getting derailed on a frequent basis, fortunately, not serious accidents, but it happened in the same place a few times. The authorities thought it was kids causing damage so they set up video surveillance, only to find it was crows placing rocks on the tracks......


Have to say, the crows in Japan were bloody scary, they were the size of dogs. On bin day in Tokyo, I'd walk out of the house to go to work, and the buildings everywhere would be lined with big black beasties as they all queued up to feed on the rubbish lining the streets. It was like something from a Hitchcock movie, they truly were big nasty evil b@st@rds...