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12-11-2008, 01:56 PM
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| | | Strange mysterious natural events
For some time I have been wondering what has been stealing the golf balls from my garden. They are there in the evening and then disappear over night. Then the other day, whilst excavating a flower bed for the winter, I discovered hundreds of buried golf balls! I presume a fox has been doing this for some reason!?!?!?!?
I was just wondering what has puzzled the other wildlife fans out there. Any funny goings on in your neighbourhood? |
12-11-2008, 02:21 PM
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| | | Re: Strange mysterious natural events
Certainly it is a Fox that is doing this. Golf ball burying is reported quite frequently. I suspect they mistake them for eggs, and bury them as food stores, though what happens when they return and dig them up I don't know!
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12-11-2008, 02:23 PM
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| | | Re: Strange mysterious natural events
We have rooks stealing golf balls from our local course, maybe they think they are eggs? Welcome to WAB Esca Mento.
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12-11-2008, 02:31 PM
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| | | Re: Strange mysterious natural events
Some years ago at Aldenham golf course, there was a crow that kept picking balls up of the fairway. Apparently the local rules allowed for this and if it happened to you, you were allowed to drop a new ball without a penalty.
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12-11-2008, 02:32 PM
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| | | Re: Strange mysterious natural events
Is there somewhere you could hide-out and watch what really comes along, I'm wouldn't put my money on It being a Fox, sounds Ssssssssnake like to me, or maybe a very big Squirrel. How exciting.  |
12-11-2008, 06:37 PM
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| | | Re: Strange mysterious natural events
How strange, I wonder what animal/bird has a fettish for golf balls? 
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13-11-2008, 06:54 AM
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| | | Re: Strange mysterious natural events
I have just read a previous thread on this forum about 'something' stealing someone's gardening gloves all the time and burying them so it's not just egg-shaped things. I will do a stake out BloomingMarvellous and let you know the results. Thanks for the welcome! |
14-11-2008, 09:47 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Fife, Scotland
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| | | Re: Strange mysterious natural events
It sounds to me like it will be a fox, because the golf balls are vanishing over night, I don't think a crow would do this during the night.
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14-11-2008, 11:16 PM
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| | | Re: Strange mysterious natural events
It seems from what you say that the golfballs were all buried in a small area, if this is the case, then a sand trap laid around that area will soon let you know what it is by the footprints and the sand is good for conditioning the soil anyway, so you have nothing to lose. I would personally suspect a fox but many others bury quite large items. Some years ago, while attempting to control the rabbits on a local golf course we found a couple of dozen balls down a rabbit hole, we later found a magpie was the culprit.
Keith
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15-11-2008, 06:16 AM
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| | | Re: Strange mysterious natural events
Last year, after returning home from a muddy walk, I stood my trainers outside on the patio and forgot about them. When I remembered that I'd left them outside, I pulled back the curtains and they'd gone!
This year, whilst out in the garden, my neighbour called across and asked me if I knew who's trainer he'd just dug up whilst lifting his beetroots.
Never did find the other one. 
Definitely a fox I'd say.
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