Critters on the course you ran into...

[MattyIce]

not the best pic but he was probably about 3 1/2 ft long, also saw snapping turtle but he was under the water and i couldnt get a pic of him

 

[sidewinder22]

I'm not going in that water.

 

[mattdabbs]

My buddy Ron put this on his FB. It is in Florida at Taylor park. Crazy.

and guys swim in there...dumb. gators over ten feet long in that lake.

 

[notBOB]

squirrels are getting spoiled around here, had one run up and steal some of my sunchips mid round over a year ago, little bastard..

 

[Jeasy13]

I run across roadrunners quite often at Lions Park in Temple, TX... I'm still looking for the coyote.

 

[basketcase15]

i run into racoons all the time

 

[Johnny Conservative]

Just yesterday my buddy and I saw a skunk at our home course. I had never seen a skunk in this park ever. Anyhow, it was between the tee pad and the basket in a runoff ditch. We decided that it should not be a problem as long as we clear the ditch, which normally happens. What do I do? Hit a tree with my drive and lands in the same ditch in the area we saw the skunk in. The disc must have scared the skunk because when we got to near where my disc was you could smell a hint of odor. Luckily, I was able to get in the ditch, chuck my disc quickly and get out of the ditch before he came out of his hiding place without getting sprayed. My disc escaped unsprayed as well.

 

[shinypickle]

I ran into a doe the other day on the course.

 

[New013]

First of all, snakes will probably not bite you while in the water. Only if you swim up to them and grab them. Most snakes in the water will drown if they try to latch on to something in the water.

Secondly, I saw an armadillo for the first time in Arkansas last week while playing. I heard some **** in the bushes and i threw my wraith towards it, the armadillo came scuddling out and freaked me the hell out for about .5 seconds. Crazy looking things.

 

[kfellmy]

The most common critter I see on my home course is called the homeless bum. Their tents are along side hole #1 when playing the long basket position. They are walk all through the park. If your disc is lost in the pond, they'll get it for a few bucks.

Hole #5 at the North Watertower Park is along a walking path. When the weather is cold that path has a hole over it and the sun can hit the cement. The bums walk all night and sleep in the warm spot, when the sun comes up. They were sleeping there when the tourney started. It took just a few discs sailing just over their heads and they moved.

The tee at hole #6 at North Watertower Park is where the drug dealers congregate. They can slip quickly out of the park since it is right by an exit.

PS-to the above post about Armadillos...they are faster than you think.

 

[Midnightbiker]

At the hole 9 fairway at Timber Lane Park, there was a dead cat, decomposing in the fairway. Smelled nice and ripe when you got down wind of it. There are some woods on the left side of the fairway, and you could see where someone tried to dig a hole and bury the cat in a shallow grave, and someone, or something dug it up, and drug it across the fairway. It was not a pretty sight.

People must dump animals out there, because a few months ago, same course , hole # 3, there was a dead dog in a shallow grave.

 

[Midnightbiker]

This reminds me of a similar thing at Sequoyah park in GA. My buddy and I were walking across the parking lot from hole 12 to 13 and all of a sudden BZZZZZZZZZZ a black cloud came flying right past us just feet away. Pretty cool/terrifying.

I am sure I posted this , but here is the story again:

Went to my shot, in the woods, set my bag down, and put down my mini, and reached for my disc. My hand started burning, and I noticed something on my hand. I pulled back, and then all of the sudden I was surrounded by yellow jackets. I set my bag down near the nest in the ground. I took off running, but I was stung 5 times. We had to use a very long branch to hook my bag, and pull it away, and beat the yellow jackets out of my bag, which they had swarmed. It was not fun.

I guess someone else also got attacked, because 3 weeks later, someone went out there with some gasoline, and burned out them out.

 

[discdoh]

Is that CA style? Crazy bums...

 

[Jivecody]

Should of had 'em hop up onto the Birdie instead, Young bird, not injured.

 

[ZBoazMobster]

So... this guy stumbles on a comotion in the grass. Takes a look, and a 4 ft Coachwhip pops up. This snake has a baby rabbit in it's mouth. Snakes heads have strange shapes when they eat (duh), and this guy sees a triangular head... god, I hate ignorance. WHACK!

I show up a few minutes later, everyone is telling me a ratsnake has been killed. Roll my eyes. Let's look. Well, epic failure from big bad 7 foot tall man. The snake is in fact alive, but severely hurt. I pick it up to evaluate it's condition. I'm thinking he can be rehab'd. Short time later, I decide it's suffering more than neccessary. Joe and I put it down, quickly.

Not ten minutes later, another golfer comes up and says 'another one'. I go look. She's awesome. About a 6 foot Coachwhip. It's in a tree, so I shoo it further up. It dissapears.

Z-Boaz is going to see alot of snakes this year. Meaning I'm going to see alot of dead ones. Let me catch one of these faulkners...

Oh yeah... the baby rabbits! There's two left, it's right next to the most populous teebox on the course (10). Many dogs run thru here. Joe takes them. They are 7 - 10 days from leaving the nest. Pretty well developed. Well... joe brings them back the next day. He's 'babysitting'. Oh boy, okay, whatever. I take them. They need a stable, quiet nest. I'll release them when they're ready. One might not make it. A runt I presume.

 

[New013]

I see the same deer behind Hole 12 at Middle Creek all the time.

 

[Chiefstang]

Guy in my group was looking for his disc in tall grass this past weekend and found a baby deer two feet from his lie. It was curled up in the grass, and didn't move while we checked it out. We gave the guy a relief from the baby deer, but right as he's winding up his throw, the deer made a noise and took off running down the fairway, tripping over it's legs the whole way.

Same round, two full grown deer are behind the basket for seven. I throw my upshot, which lands about ten feet from one of the deer. I expected him to bolt and run away, but he instead casually walks to my disc and sniffs it before walking away.

I was worried, because as we all know, deer rarely call the number on the disc.

 

[New013]

I was worried, because as we all know, deer rarely call the number on the disc.

ROFL

 

[Fishy]

speaking of snakes.. after tourney at HP today decided to play another round, basically to make up for the total crap round I had, nothing like blowing it at your first tourney.. but on hole 15 (old 17) my buddy spots this guy wandering around, so I had to kind of provoke him enough to give me this jewel of a picture:

let him continue on doing his snakey type things, let the group behind us know he was off the fairway and under a tree. I see deer at the course all the time but this was the first live rattle snake I'd seen there, the last one was dead and had his rattles cut off. still didn't stop me from coiling him up under the basket as a joke. Only thing I succeeded there was scaring my partner, who knew it was there. Stoners...heh.

same hole so I'm sure there is some breeding going on there in the rocks.

 

[ZBoazMobster]

Copperhead found next to 5's teebox at The Cedar Hill Open. We moved it away, and let it go. Nature Reserve after all.