BS: animals on the golf course. enjoy

Subject: BS: animals on the golf course. enjoy
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 03 Jun 14 - 12:15 PM

I could use a smile this week, so when I saw a video about 10 animal encounters during PGA tournaments, I decided to watch.

gang agley

Re: the caddy and the alligator - do not try this at home!

Subject: RE: BS: animals on the golf course. enjoy
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jun 14 - 12:25 PM

Like. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: animals on the golf course. enjoy
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 03 Jun 14 - 12:33 PM

The course in Banff (Alberta) gets bear, deer, coyotes, etc. But expected in a National Park.

Subject: RE: BS: animals on the golf course. enjoy
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 03 Jun 14 - 12:36 PM

The gull taking off with the ball- how did they decide strokes? Is there a rule ?

Subject: RE: BS: animals on the golf course. enjoy
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 03 Jun 14 - 01:50 PM

Amusing video, don't like golf, but I like critters.

Subject: RE: BS: animals on the golf course. enjoy
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 03 Jun 14 - 03:02 PM

Aye and just up the road from Banff, skiing at Sunshine in May means you have to swerve to miss a bear.

I have the T shirt....

(Bumped into one whilst zip trekking at Whistler for that matter. Ok I get it. Canada has bears. Just stop proving it when I am over eh?)

Subject: RE: BS: animals on the golf course. enjoy
From: JennieG
Date: 03 Jun 14 - 06:37 PM

Kangaroos quite like golf courses in Oz because they have lots of nice green grass to eat. Here's just one story - if you look in google images there are countless more.

Subject: RE: BS: animals on the golf course. enjoy
From: GUEST,#
Date: 03 Jun 14 - 07:18 PM

Thanks for the link, leeneia. Got my chuckle for the day.

Subject: RE: BS: animals on the golf course. enjoy
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jun 14 - 08:34 PM

Just beyond the back fence is a golf course. We've seen Western Kingbirds, Bald and Golden Eagles, a Great Horned Owl in snowy phase, had a Great Horned as a neighbor, whitetail deer, a small herd of elk, coyotes, voles, and a wolf...and the usual robins, house wrens, Canada geese, ducks, and such like critters.

But the most fun to watch are Homo Golferus. Watch a little fat man chase his runaway golf cart or the mating antics of a young male "helping" a young female to learn to swing the club and you'll know what I mean. Their young are also fun to watch, picking up their father's ball on the green and running away with it or "driving" the golf cart are but two of their antics.

Subject: RE: BS: animals on the golf course. enjoy
From: akenaton
Date: 04 Jun 14 - 04:54 PM

Not a golf course, but an empty greyhound stadium in the centre of the city of Glasgow.

In the centre is a football pitch(now unused), with three little urban foxes dancing in a circle.....wish I had my camera....

Subject: RE: BS: animals on the golf course. enjoy
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 05 Jun 14 - 12:16 AM

Good question, Q. Judging from the announcer's comment, they would have placed a second ball at about the spot where the gull found it.

Perhaps the gull thought that if it dropped the golf ball onto a rock, the ball would split open and good to eat, like an oyster.