Critters on the course you ran into...

[Sir Puttsalot]

Focus fail, due to time/daylight contraints....

 

[DGRZ001]

I like the glowing eyes.

 

[razorsmith.com]

buddy and i were playing a local round of glow about 2 weeks ago and he landed this great forehand 10 feet from the pin. you hear some rustling and through the light two coyotes take off running from right near his disc. that was only half of it as they took off running right at the next basket. luckily we did not encounter them again.

other than that most recent, i have seen skunks, turtles, a beaver, stung by a wasp, freakishly big hawks/falcons, a possum or two, armadillos, and lots of snakes. and that is just this year. fun times.

 

[Chainchaser]

White squirrel when we were at Belmont DGC in Dayton. We also ran into a gnome with no pants at the local krogers but that is a whole other story!!opcorn:

 

[simpletwist]

Kind of tough to see, but there is an immature hawk chowing down on squirrel in the center of the pictures. This was yesterday at Joseph Davis SP (aka JD or the Dizzle) The hawk was about 20 feet from the basket on #24.

I could see it from the teebox, from 300 feet away I couldn't tell what kind of bird it was. Goose? Turkey? Buzzard? All 3 are very common at JD. My buddies said it looked like a goose. Watching its actions I wasn't sold. We all took our drives. As we got closer we realized it was a hawk! It seemed unconcerned about us and continued to eat. We walked within 15 feet of it. Every once in awhile it'd turn to look at us. We watched in awe for awhile and eventually putted out. The first cha-ching of the basket slightly ruffled the hawk's feathers but other than that it just kept eating.

At the teebox for #26 one of my partners almost got a black ace on #24 hitting the top of the basket. Our other 2 drives also went wide left right in the direction of the hawk. None of our activity bothered it.

Its feathers were a nondescript, mottled pattern of browns, blacks, greys, and whites. It was certainly an immature hawk. First season. As soon as I got home I looked it up in my Peterson's and still couldn't tell the species. Pretty cool nonetheless.

 

[Jukeshoe]

Very cool, Simpletwisty! :thmbup:

 

[Chainchaser]

Maybe a redtail and it looks the closest in color. Very Cool!!!:hfive:

 

[simpletwist]

Maybe a redtail and it looks the closest in color. Very Cool!!!:hfive:

That's the most likely species, they are very common around here.

 

[Dan H.]

I saw several deer two weekends ago playing at Arcadia Lake DGC in Edmond, OK. One of the reasons I love this sport is it gets me out into nature to see these kinds of things.

 

[jcburton24]

Saw a bald eagle yesterday and the day before while playing Mcfarland Park. Awesome sight!

 

[blind pilot]

White squirrel when we were at Belmont DGC in Dayton. We also ran into a gnome with no pants at the local krogers but that is a whole other story!!opcorn:

Very cool! I stayed in Pensacola Fla. one winter,at the house we stayed at there was a pair of white squirrels,never spotted any since. I too have pics somewhere,I'll have to look for them.

 

[joshualicari]

I've come across numerous red foxes and bullsnakes out here in Colorado.

 

[Nowski]

A few months ago a guy I was playing a round at Buffalo Ridge in Phoenix with said he felt something crawling on his back after we finished our round.. He shakes out his shirt and out falls a "spider scorpion." Didn't take a picture (he stepped on it as soon as it hit the ground so wasn't much room for a picture) but this is what it looked like

. Thing was friggin' gnarly, he's lucky it didn't bite!

thats a sun spider. those things are crazy lookin

 

[Jimb]

Jim Barnett Park in Winchester, VA. I totally forgot about these pics until I saw the white squirrel pic again. How about an almost completely black squirrel? These were taken in August or September of 2010.

 

[PCDG13]

Not to be a d!ck or anything, but are black squirrels rare?

 

[DyeingToPlay]

Not to be a d!ck or anything, but are black squirrels rare?

Not in Ontario, but much less common as you go further south.

 

[iacas]

Not to be a d!ck or anything, but are black squirrels rare?

Depends on your area of the country.

Some places have a bunch of black squirrels. I remember joking during a field trip in HS that they were what happened when a rat and a squirrel got it on. We called them "squats" (rhymes with "rats").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_squirrel

 

[Jimb]

Not to be a d!ck or anything, but are black squirrels rare?

First of all, the thread isn't titled "Rare" Critters on the course you ran into. I just thought that it was cool so I posted it.

But to answer your question... Yes. Around here, (WV near Cumberland, MD) they are. We have dozens of grey squirrels around my house. We used to have red squirrels, too. I'm 45, and have lived in the woods my entire life, but I don't remember ever seeing a black squirrel until I saw this one in Winchester, VA.

 

[kingjames1014]

I saw one at the Brampton ON course White Spruce Park.

 

[brewcrewdominates]

So my friend and I are playing some new courses today in our quest to conquer Wisconsin. It got late but we wanted to finish to mark off the course. Were playing the last hole in complete darkness, I tee off in the middle of the fairway and my buddy goes to shoot. Right as he releases his disc, three whitetail deer jump up 10 feet in front of us. Crazy! My friend whipped out his phone and turned the flashlight on so we got a good look at 3 does.