View Full Version : Scavengers/poachers on the golf course?!?
billethkid
05-23-2020, 05:36 PM
On the first tee at Heron this morning waiting my turn in the tee box.
A crow lights on the seat of my golf cart, picks up my oats and chocolate breakfast bar (unopened yet) and flies away with it.
That is a first!!!!
:rant-rave:
anothersteve
05-23-2020, 05:42 PM
Watch for those damn squirrels too!
Steve
Mleeja
05-23-2020, 05:47 PM
I had a crow take a package of peanut butter crackers out of my cart while parked at Winn-Dixie at LSL. The package was on the ground next to the cart and the crow had opened crackers.
Northwoods
05-23-2020, 07:54 PM
First hole of Calusa is brutal. You're putting on the green and the birds are picking your cart apart. Then they leave a little white "thank you gift" on your steering wheel when they're done.
JGVillages
05-23-2020, 08:00 PM
Many years ago when I lived at Fiddlesticks in Fort Myers a crow flew away with a players Rolex watch from the cart. They like food and shiny things.
dnobles
05-23-2020, 08:08 PM
Take plastic shopping bags and hook them to the curtain straps. They will blow in the wind and keep the birds away. Also cover the steering wheel .
John_W
05-23-2020, 09:11 PM
I've had black birds at Belle Glade Calusa take an energy bar off the seat of my cart while I was on the green and Cane Garden Jacaranda Hole #5 the monkey squirrels in the big oak tree will take anything in your cart, orange crackers, energy bars, raisins, although I haven't seen them lately. I live about 100 yards away from that hole in a CYV and have 4 regular squirrels in my backyard all the time.
Once I was sitting in my car in front of Publix at Colony and a cart parked next to me, I watched two black birds go inside the cart and check it out everything in the cart. I learned if you playing golf, anything you have open, when you go to the green or tee put it in the glove box.
Rwirish
05-24-2020, 05:04 AM
Happens all the time.
Dilligas
05-24-2020, 05:29 AM
At our course in South Florida, the squirrels took everything from food to golf balls to jewelry. A friend lost a ring so got a ladder after golf and with a bag boy climbed up to the nest and found a treasure chest of things from gum, food, gloves, rings, and watches.
Jewelz
05-24-2020, 05:40 AM
Smart birds- they know that the Villages is a great place to hand out to find goodies!!!
wamley
05-24-2020, 05:56 AM
The jewelry has a pocket in most golf carts, to date haven't lost any, but food is different thing. Black birds have unzipped pockets with food i them.
2heartsapart
05-24-2020, 05:57 AM
When I lived in a Brooksville on a course there were Monkey Squirrels who would race up onto the putting greens and steal the balls...hilarious the first time, less so on repeats!!
caseycasebeer
05-24-2020, 07:02 AM
At the Wrangell golf course in Southeast Alaska, if an eagle or raven steals your golf ball you’re permitted to play another ball without taking a penalty stroke. Around here, how many folks have lost a golf ball to an alligator?
FYI: The 9-hole Wrangell course has two flags on each AstroTurf ‘green so you can play “eighteen.”
Suzieque
05-24-2020, 07:21 AM
First hole of Calusa is brutal. You're putting on the green and the birds are picking your cart apart. Then they leave a little white "thank you gift" on your steering wheel when they're done.
Good thing you have those disinfecting wipes!
Suzieque
05-24-2020, 07:30 AM
When I lived in a Brooksville on a course there were Monkey Squirrels who would race up onto the putting greens and steal the balls...hilarious the first time, less so on repeats!!
I never heard of a monkey squirrel so googled it and all I see are monkeys. Is what you are talking about a real monkey?
paulajr
05-24-2020, 07:55 AM
I never heard of a monkey squirrel so googled it and all I see are monkeys. Is what you are talking about a real monkey?
Nature Center Magazine: Ten Questions: Florida Monkey Squirrels (http://www.nc-mag.com/2011/05/ten-questions-florida-monkey-squirrels.html)
donassaid
05-24-2020, 08:00 AM
Have had this happen multiple times by birds and squirrels. Best to leave in glove box or overhead tray.
jimlambert
05-24-2020, 08:14 AM
Calusa?
Garwood1
05-24-2020, 08:22 AM
Crows at Pebble Beach will pull the towel off ,your sandwich at the turn and fly off with the whole darned thing
Briand
05-24-2020, 08:46 AM
No, they are slightly larger and very quick and intelligent. I have seen them several times here inTV working as a team - while one entertains you the others are ransacking your cart! Longer less bushy tails - don’t know the correct name but well known as “ Monkey Squirrels “.
OrangeBlossomBaby
05-24-2020, 08:52 AM
Why isn't someone turning these monstrous offenders in to Community Watch? Someone call Meta Minton, this is the scoop of the year!
Stu from NYC
05-24-2020, 08:54 AM
Should charge those birds the amenity fee for what they are taking away
John_W
05-24-2020, 09:17 AM
I never heard of a monkey squirrel so googled it and all I see are monkeys. Is what you are talking about a real monkey?
I've only seen them on the Jacaranda nine, but not lately. When you see one for the first time, it just makes you think of a monkey by the way they act and look. They're really a Fox Squirrel.
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bowlingal
05-24-2020, 09:21 AM
Crows/blackbirds usually leave in June for parts unknown. I can tell by my bird feeders being full all day. They usually come back around Nov/Dec
John_W
05-24-2020, 09:23 AM
At the Wrangell golf course in Southeast Alaska, if an eagle or raven steals your golf ball you’re permitted to play another ball without taking a penalty stroke. Around here, how many folks have lost a golf ball to an alligator?
A fellow in my golf group recently was talking to a powerline worker and they had to dismantle a bald eagle nest from a tower next to Belle Glade. He said they found 9 dog collars in the nest. This is third party info, take it for what's worth. However, small dogs should always be on a leash, coyotes are known to grab small dogs once or twice a year in TV. You can see a story at the link below from Channel 9 Orlando, or search on this very website and find it happens.
Coyote snatches woman's dog in The Villages (https://www.wftv.com/news/local/coyote-snatches-womans-dog-in-the-villages/560325325/)
John_W
05-24-2020, 09:26 AM
Crows/blackbirds usually leave in June for parts unknown. I can tell by my bird feeders being full all day. They usually come back around Nov/Dec
Use Safflower seed, black birds and squirrels won't touch it and song birds and doves love it. I didn't get black birds this year until February, they came the same week as the Brown Thrashers.
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Scorpyo
05-24-2020, 09:29 AM
Crows/blackbirds usually leave in June for parts unknown. I can tell by my bird feeders being full all day. They usually come back around Nov/Dec
You're the culprit. Stop putting peanut butter crackers, chocolate power bars and shiny objects in your bird feeders!
frasep
05-24-2020, 09:43 AM
My friend had a baggie with cut up fruit inside zipped into her front golf bag pocket at Hacienda. When she came back from eating lunch (Hacienda was still open), a squirrel was eating the fruit. The squirrel had gnawed through the bag to get the fruit!
phylt
05-24-2020, 10:01 AM
The very same thing happened to me on the same golf course about a month ago! I had brought a couple granola bars containing chocolate chips and left them in my cart. I went to practice some putting and saw a friend of mine running off to the right and had no idea why. On his return to the putting green he informed me that he had seen a crow in my cart steeling something and flying off. He tried to retrieve it. When I looked in the cart I noticed one of the two unopened bars missing! Lesson learned.
RtuWngs
05-24-2020, 10:54 AM
"Monkey squirrels" are actually foxtail squirrels.
PugMom
05-24-2020, 11:51 AM
On the first tee at Heron this morning waiting my turn in the tee box.
A crow lights on the seat of my golf cart, picks up my oats and chocolate breakfast bar (unopened yet) and flies away with it.
That is a first!!!!
:rant-rave:
he must've recognized the packaging, :1rotfl:
Duneahh
05-24-2020, 12:13 PM
Thanks All, This is the most delightful thread EVER!!
jimmio
05-24-2020, 12:48 PM
I lived on Clearwater beach/Sand Key for the last 15 years before moving here. A young couple who borrowed their parents condo in my building for their honeymoon getaway were in the pool. All of a sudden she starts screaming as a crow landed on the table they had placed some belongings on in between the chaise lounges. "MY RINGS ON THAT TABLE!, MY RINGS ON THAT TABLE!. I had just arose from my poolside slumber as she started screaming so I started running over there to shoo it away because they were in the pool. I got there just in time to see the crow take off with what I would learn was a $14,000 wedding ring.
Needless to say she was upset, even though their insurance would replace it she was still upset. Funniest thing she said was that she only brought her costume jewelry with. That was the only thing on that table worth anything and that's what the crow chose. Lol!
navair4me
05-24-2020, 01:54 PM
breakfast to go? ;-) Don't trust the squirrels,either!
HIgolfers
05-24-2020, 02:36 PM
I've had black birds at Belle Glade Calusa take an energy bar off the seat of my cart while I was on the green and Cane Garden Jacaranda Hole #5 the monkey squirrels in the big oak tree will take anything in your cart, orange crackers, energy bars, raisins, although I haven't seen them lately. I live about 100 yards away from that hole in a CYV and have 4 regular squirrels in my backyard all the time.
Once I was sitting in my car in front of Publix at Colony and a cart parked next to me, I watched two black birds go inside the cart and check it out everything in the cart. I learned if you playing golf, anything you have open, when you go to the green or tee put it in the glove box.
At Calusa a bird (seagull) picked my ball up off the green and fly away with it.
Northwoods
05-24-2020, 08:28 PM
The very same thing happened to me on the same golf course about a month ago! I had brought a couple granola bars containing chocolate chips and left them in my cart. I went to practice some putting and saw a friend of mine running off to the right and had no idea why. On his return to the putting green he informed me that he had seen a crow in my cart steeling something and flying off. He tried to retrieve it. When I looked in the cart I noticed one of the two unopened bars missing! Lesson learned.
NEVER have any food in your cart or golf bag. It just attracts hungry creatures.
mitch zajac
05-25-2020, 10:12 AM
To the fellow who commented on the first hole of colusa I had the same thing happened to me on the second hole of colusa the first hole used to have a million birds on the Green that you had to shoo away when you were putting if your ball landed to the right side of the hole
Tennisbum
05-25-2020, 01:21 PM
If you think they are bad, wait until one of the crocs targets your breakfast!
Stu from NYC
05-25-2020, 02:26 PM
I lived on Clearwater beach/Sand Key for the last 15 years before moving here. A young couple who borrowed their parents condo in my building for their honeymoon getaway were in the pool. All of a sudden she starts screaming as a crow landed on the table they had placed some belongings on in between the chaise lounges. "MY RINGS ON THAT TABLE!, MY RINGS ON THAT TABLE!. I had just arose from my poolside slumber as she started screaming so I started running over there to shoo it away because they were in the pool. I got there just in time to see the crow take off with what I would learn was a $14,000 wedding ring.
Needless to say she was upset, even though their insurance would replace it she was still upset. Funniest thing she said was that she only brought her costume jewelry with. That was the only thing on that table worth anything and that's what the crow chose. Lol!
Did she need to have crow insurance as a separate rider?
Burke711
05-25-2020, 03:38 PM
Not long ago, a black bird landed in my cart and left his "gift" to me in the eye piece of my range finder... filled it right up.
Ugh
Funkman
05-25-2020, 05:54 PM
Speaking of squirrel problems
This is well worth a watch
Building the Perfect Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFZFjoX2cGg)
billethkid
05-25-2020, 06:24 PM
If you think they are bad, wait until one of the crocs targets your breakfast!
Or targets their breakfast!!!
:eek:
Stu from NYC
05-25-2020, 07:02 PM
If you think they are bad, wait until one of the crocs targets your breakfast!
Under the impression it is rare to see one, am I wrong?
Topspinmo
05-25-2020, 11:23 PM
Crows are probably the smartest birds in north America, maybe the world. they run in family pods and work together. It you threaten them they remember you face and will avoid you're presents and warn other crows of danger. Washington state or Oregon university done study on learning channel? (cant remember, been 10 years since I seen the program) years ago revealed a lot what crows learn and communicate. They also like shinny objects and will collect them. most don't realize, but they are watching you and learn how to source food. They didn't fall off the Gooney Bird turnip truck yesterday.
Topspinmo
05-25-2020, 11:25 PM
Not long ago, a black bird landed in my cart and left his "gift" to me in the eye piece of my range finder... filled it right up.
Ugh
grackles and north American black bird have learned to pick dead bugs off car Front ends and even pick them out of the radiators. Watch them in parking lot next time you go to store.
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