Owl Golf
Owl Golf
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Charley Harper Lithograph- Birdie $50.00 Open edition lithograph from the art of Charley Harper features two disgruntled burrowing owls who find an errant golf ball in their nest. Paper Size 11 3/8″ x 12″ Image Size 8 3/8″ x 9″ Copyright Estate of Charley Harper 2008… |
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Personalized Golf Couple Ornament by Ornaments with Love This ornament is personalized with the names and the year at no extra charge. This personalized ornament is made of resin. Shipping, Handling, Packing and Insurance is a flat rate of $6.95 no matter how many ornaments are ordered…. |
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Personalized Golf Ornament by Ornaments with Love This ornament is personalized with the name and the year at no extra charge. This personalized ornament is made of resin. Shipping, Handling, Packing and Insurance is a flat rate of $6.95 no matter how many ornaments are ordered…. |
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Flex Neck Reading Light The popular Flex Neck⢠Reading Light now comes in fun colors and patterns! Perfect for kids of all ages, the Flex Neck clips anywhere and points two bright LEDs wherever you need light the most. And for readers on-the-go, the head snaps into the clip for form a secure loop…. |
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IRISH OWLS FAN SHAMROCK IRELAND PRIDE KELLY GREEN T SHIRT jersey GILDAN ADULT HEAVY COTTON TEE ? 5.3 oz., 100% Cotton, preshrunk ? Cotton/10% Polyester). ? Seamless double-needle collar. ? Taped neck and shoulders. ? Double-needle sleeve and bottom hems. * Any questions please call or email us. ? WE HAVE OTHER SIZES AND COLORS AVAILABLE. *2T- 13″ CHEST X 17″ LENGTH *3T- 14″ CHEST X 18″ LENGTH *4T- 15″ CHEST X 19″ LENGTH *YS- 16″ CHEST X 20″ LENGTH *YM- 17″… |
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3-in-1 Golf Divot of Eurasian Eagle Owl $17.99 This high quality metal chrome 3-in-1 golf divot, can be used as a golf repair tool, a ball mark and a money clip. This 3-in-1 Golf Divot includes a spring clip to attach onto belts or on pants pockets for easy access on the golf course. It also includes a 3/4″ magnetic ball mark, with personalized enamel logo. Make a great gift…. |
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3-in-1 Golf Divot of Retro Butterflies in 60s Colors (Pink, Blue, Green, and Yellow Butterfly with Flowers) $17.99 This high quality metal chrome 3-in-1 golf divot, can be used as a golf repair tool, a ball mark and a money clip. This 3-in-1 Golf Divot includes a spring clip to attach onto belts or on pants pockets for easy access on the golf course. It also includes a 3/4″ magnetic ball mark, with personalized enamel logo. Make a great gift…. |
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Fanmats Rice Owls Starter Mat $19.99 Your den, bedroom, or office is not complete until you add the NCAA® starter mat from Fanmats® to the decor. Built to last, the 100% nylon carpet boasts non-skid Duragon® latex backing and is Chromojet-painted in the team colors. The mat is decorated with the colorful team logo…. |
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Fanmats Rice Owls Carpeted Car Mats $49.99 Don’t leave your school spirit at home; take it on the road with the NCAA® carpeted car mats from Fanmats®. Each mat in the 2-piece set features a 100% nylon face with non-skid vinyl backing as well as the team logo and colors. The mats can be used in cars, trucks, SUVs, and RVs…. |
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Blue Fairways: Three Months, Sixty Courses, No Mulligans $2.36 Perhaps the Royal and Ancient game’s most majestic appeal is simply this: Stand up on the first tee and what you survey down the fairway is a beckoning landscape of possibility, renewal, improvement, and hope. All mark the scorecard of Blue Fairways, a lovely pilgrimage that begins in Maine, ends in Florida, and in a journey of three months plays 60 public courses from one end of Route 1 to the ot… |
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The Snake in the Sandtrap (And Other Misadventures on the Golf Tour) $9.00 Top golfer Lee Trevino presents his observations of the major golf tournaments, famous golfers, and some rather funny bounces along the fairways. 49 black-and-white photographs…. |
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PGA Tour Ultimate Book of Golf: A Life in the Cosm $25.00 … |
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Rice Owls Divot Tool & 3 Ball Gift Set LWKDTGFT $21.95 The perfect gift for any golfer. This gift set contains three imprinted Top-Flite XL golf balls, four wood tees and a divot tool combo with a printed, removable, ball marker…. |
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Rice Owls Divot Tool & Ball Marker LWKDT $12.95 ###############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################… |
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Rice Owls Cap Clip Divot Tool & 3 Ball Gift Set LWCAPGFT $28.95 The perfect gift for any golfer. This gift set contains three imprinted Top-Flite XL golf balls, four wood tees and one magnetic cap clip & divot tool combo with a printed, removable, ball marker…. |
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Daphne’s Owl Headcovers $21.93 Daphne’s Headcovers are the original Animal Headcover. Tiger Woods, Justin Leonard and Aaron Baddeley are just of the few famous golfers using Daphne’s. The is a well crafted Owl headcover. Lifetime Guarantee! Each headcover carries a 100% guarantee. C… |
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Temple Owls 3 Pack Sock Headcover $34.99 Set contains 3 NCAA Temple Owls headcovers, numbered 1, 3 and X. The #1 fits all oversized drivers. Imitation leather front…. |
Birds On The Course!
One of the big attractions of golf is the chance to be out in the countryside, exercising, breathing the fresh air and stopping occasionally to admire the scenery.
Golf courses also a great place for wildlife and have a role to play in providing sanctuaries for threatened birds and animals, according to the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) and golf’s governing body, the R&A.
Golf has been criticized in the past by green groups claiming courses use excessive water, pesticides and fertilizers but a new joint publication, Birds and Golf Courses: A Guide to Habitat Management (available through the R&A, priced £7.99), marks a change in attitude by the industry, highlighting golf courses across the UK where wildlife-friendly measures have been a success.
“Golf courses may have gained a bad reputation, perhaps not always justified, among environmentalists but that’s changing,” says the RSPB’s Nigel Symes, who co-wrote the publication.
“The truth is that every golf course has potential to be a sanctuary for wildlife and to provide an important stepping stone for birds and other animals whose habitat is under threat. While researching this report we have come across a lot of inspiring examples of golf courses doing great things for wildlife,” he says.
“We would now like more golf clubs to look at what they can do for skylarks, woodlarks, corn buntings and all kinds of birds. Planting native plants like heather and creating reed beds and hay meadows as well as reducing the use of pesticide and fertiliser can all make a big difference.”
Among those involved in encouraging wildlife is Steve Thompson, a greenkeeper at John O’Gaunt golf club in Bedfordshire, who, in his spare time makes bird boxes for wild birds including woodpeckers, jackdaws, and tawny owls.
According to the statistics, there 140,000 hectares of rough and out-of-bounds areas on UK golf courses, which could be managed for wildlife – a similarly-sized area is covered by all the RSPB’s UK nature reserves.
“For most golfers part of the enjoyment of a game is getting out of the rat race for a while and enjoying the wildlife,” says Steve Isaac from the R&A. “Often some wild bird song as you walk around the course can more than make up for a poor game of golf.
“There has been a growing awareness over the past decade or so in the sport that courses need to do more for wildlife. While there are some greenkeepers who put more water and pesticides on their courses than we would like, there are many golf clubs managing habitats for wildlife on their land.”
One golf course owner blazing a trail for wildlife is Paul Stevenson, from New Malton Golf Club in Hertfordshire. As well as cutting down on chemical and water use he has used the 40 hectares of out-of-bounds areas on his course to create habitats for birds and other animals.
“We have a thriving group of herons and a large number of woodpeckers here and it’s something our members love to see,” he says. “We even have a contingent of golfers who come along early in the morning to play when the wildlife is at its most active. They back and tell us what they’ve seen.
He adds: “I want to prove that you can encourage wildlife and reduce chemical use and still have a great course which makes a profit.”
FOOTNOTE: Many courses in the UK have for years been providing a habitat for wildlife including traditional links courses in Scotland and on the East Anglian coas, which provide a home for breeding waders like redshank and oystercatchers. Courses on the Western Isles support the threatened corncrake and a course near Abernethy is home to the UK’s only endemic bird, the Scottish crossbill. The chough, which has seen declines in recent years, is ideally suited to golf courses as it feeds on short grass.
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Birds You Can Attract into Your Garden
The American Robin is the largest thrush. Robins prefer to build their nest in the crotch of a tree. You can offer a nesting platform if you don’t have an appropriate tree. You should pick a spot that is, at least, six feet above the ground on a shaded tree trunk or under the overhang of a shed or porch. A created mud puddle in the vicinity, also, offers additional enticement, as robins use mud to hold their nests together.
Bluebirds can be attracted by putting up a bluebird house near an old field, golf course, cemetery, park or orchard. Bluebirds prefer nest boxes on a wooden fence post between three or five feet high or on a tree stump. Bluebirds, also, enjoy nesting in abandoned woodpecker nest holes.
The most consideration must be given to the hole diameter. A hole that is an inch and a half in diameter is small enough to deter starlings, which along with house sparrows, are known to kill bluebirds while sitting on the nest. Other animals are problematic to bluebirds, also. Cats, snakes, chipmunks and raccoons can be discouraged from bluebird nests by mounting the bluebird home on a metal pole or by using a metal predator guard on a wood post.
Purple Martins are a welcomed bird in many a yard because they are known to eat, nearly 2,000 mosquitoes a day. While it is true purple martins eat flying insects, don’t expect them to eliminate all the mosquitoes in your yard. The martins prefer dragonflies which prey on the larvae of mosquitoes. If you want to rid your yard of mosquitoes, you would have better luck if you put up a bat roosting box. One bat can eat thousands of mosquitoes in one night.
Martins, however, are entertaining birds. You will enjoy watching their antics in your yard. The best way of attracting martins is if you put a house on the edge of a river or pond, surrounded by a lawn or field. A nearby telephone wire gives them a place to congregate, as martins are sociable birds.
Purple martins, being sociable birds, nest in groups, also. Therefore, you will need a house with a minimum of four large rooms, six or more inches on all sides, with a 2 ½ inch entrance hole about 1 ½ inches above the floor. Drainage and ventilation are major factors in the design of a martin house. Porches with porch dividers, railings and supplemental roof perches like a TV antenna make any house more appealing.
Houses can, also, be constructed from gourds by fashioning an entrance hole and small holes at the bottom to permit drainage. If you make homes from gourds, it is not necessary to add railings and perches because adult martins will perch on the wire used to hang the house. Before you choose a house, you must think about what kind of pole you are going to put it on. Martins like their houses to be ten to twenty feet off the ground. Some poles are less cumbersome than others.
Wrens are not very choosy about their nesting place. Nest boxes with a 1 inch X 2 inch horizontal slot are enticing to the wrens. The Carolina wren requires a slot a little larger, 1 ½ in X 2 ½ inches. However, the large the opening, the better the chances that house sparrows will occupy the box. Wrens are known to fill the nest cavity with twigs, regardless of the fact they use the home to raise their young or not. Since male wrens build several houses so that the female can have her choice of a home, you should hang several nest boxes at eye level on tree limbs that are partly sunlit. Wrens are sociable. Consequently, they will not shy away from a nest close to your house.
Brown creepers and Prothonotary warblers like nesting behind the curved bark of tree trunks. Slab bark houses appeal to creepers in heavily wooded yards. Prothonotary warblers, also, prefer slab bark houses or bluebird boxes attached to a tree trunk. But their houses must be place over water such as a like, swamp or river with a good canopy of trees overhead.
Chickadees, Nuthatches and Titmice share the same habitat—feeders and food. If you put a properly designed nest box in a wooded yard, at least one of these species is bound to check it out. Chickadee houses should be placed at eye level. They can be secured to tree trunks or hung from tree limbs. The entrance h ole should be 1 1/8 inches in order to attract chickadees and exclude house sparrows. Nuthatch houses should be anchored five to six feet off the ground.
Barn Swallows and Phoebes are easy to attract if you have the right habitat like an old shed or open barn. Their nesting behavior, not their song or plumage, which at will catch your attention. But they tend to nest where you rather not have them — on a ledge directly over your front door. You can offer them a nesting shelf near the front door to prevent a mess right at the door.
Violet green and Tree Swallows prefer nest boxes attached to dead trees. You should place the boxes about seven feet apart for these birds with white bellies and iridescent blue-green backs and wings. These insect-eating birds like to be on the edge of a large field that has a river or lake nearby.
Violet-green swallows, generally, nest in the forested mountains of the West. Boxes placed on large trees in a semi-open woodland will tend to attract them.
Woodpeckers of all types can be attracted with a suet feeder. But, only, the flicker is likely to use a bird house. They prefer a box with a roughened interior and a floor covered with two inches of layered wood chips or sawdust. Flickers are, especially, fond of nest boxes filled with sawdust because they pile it up to suit themselves. The box should be placed high up on a tree trunk, exposed to direct sunlight for best results.
Flycatchers—the great crested and its western cousin, the ash-throated flycatcher, are commonly, found in rural areas that have wooded lots and in wooded suburbs. They use abandoned woodpecker holes for nesting sites. Flycatchers tend to nest in a bird house if it is placed ten feet high in a tree in an orchard or at the edge of a field with a stream.
Owls very rarely build their own nests. Great-horned and long-eared owls like abandoned crow and hawk nests. Most other species nest in tree cavities and bird houses. Barn owls like selecting nesting sites near farms. These birds will nest in barns, silos and church steeples where trees are sparse. You can try fastening a nest box for owls about fifteen feet up on a tree trunk if you live near a golf course or farm.
Screech owls prefer abandoned woodpecker holes at the edge of a neglected orchard or field. They will love boxes lined with an inch or two of wood shavings. You may attract a second tenant in one season—a kestrel, if you clean out the box in late spring after the young owls have fledged.
You need to provide drainage, ventilation and easy access for monitoring and maintenance for the boxes. A mixture of concrete and sawdust offers protection other houses cannot provide—squirrels cannot chew their way in.
About the Author
Mary Fesio is the owner and webmaster of www.FeedersFountainsAndBirdhouses.com. This is a website that offers a large variety of quality bird houses, bird feeders, garden statuary, indoor water fountains and outdoor water fountains for every taste and decor. Prices are exceptional. Browsers are welcome.
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Charley Harper Lithograph- Birdie $50.00 Open edition lithograph from the art of Charley Harper features two disgruntled burrowing owls who find an errant golf ball in their nest. Paper Size 11 3/8″ x 12″ Image Size 8 3/8″ x 9″ Copyright Estate of Charley Harper 2008… |
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Personalized Golf Couple Ornament by Ornaments with Love This ornament is personalized with the names and the year at no extra charge. This personalized ornament is made of resin. Shipping, Handling, Packing and Insurance is a flat rate of $6.95 no matter how many ornaments are ordered…. |
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Personalized Golf Ornament by Ornaments with Love This ornament is personalized with the name and the year at no extra charge. This personalized ornament is made of resin. Shipping, Handling, Packing and Insurance is a flat rate of $6.95 no matter how many ornaments are ordered…. |
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Flex Neck Reading Light The popular Flex Neck⢠Reading Light now comes in fun colors and patterns! Perfect for kids of all ages, the Flex Neck clips anywhere and points two bright LEDs wherever you need light the most. And for readers on-the-go, the head snaps into the clip for form a secure loop…. |
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IRISH OWLS FAN SHAMROCK IRELAND PRIDE KELLY GREEN T SHIRT jersey GILDAN ADULT HEAVY COTTON TEE ? 5.3 oz., 100% Cotton, preshrunk ? Cotton/10% Polyester). ? Seamless double-needle collar. ? Taped neck and shoulders. ? Double-needle sleeve and bottom hems. * Any questions please call or email us. ? WE HAVE OTHER SIZES AND COLORS AVAILABLE. *2T- 13″ CHEST X 17″ LENGTH *3T- 14″ CHEST X 18″ LENGTH *4T- 15″ CHEST X 19″ LENGTH *YS- 16″ CHEST X 20″ LENGTH *YM- 17″… |
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3-in-1 Golf Divot of Eurasian Eagle Owl $17.99 This high quality metal chrome 3-in-1 golf divot, can be used as a golf repair tool, a ball mark and a money clip. This 3-in-1 Golf Divot includes a spring clip to attach onto belts or on pants pockets for easy access on the golf course. It also includes a 3/4″ magnetic ball mark, with personalized enamel logo. Make a great gift…. |
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3-in-1 Golf Divot of Retro Butterflies in 60s Colors (Pink, Blue, Green, and Yellow Butterfly with Flowers) $17.99 This high quality metal chrome 3-in-1 golf divot, can be used as a golf repair tool, a ball mark and a money clip. This 3-in-1 Golf Divot includes a spring clip to attach onto belts or on pants pockets for easy access on the golf course. It also includes a 3/4″ magnetic ball mark, with personalized enamel logo. Make a great gift…. |
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Rice Owls Divot Tool & 3 Ball Gift Set LWKDTGFT $21.95 The perfect gift for any golfer. This gift set contains three imprinted Top-Flite XL golf balls, four wood tees and a divot tool combo with a printed, removable, ball marker…. |
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Rice Owls Divot Tool & Ball Marker LWKDT $12.95 ###############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################… |
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Rice Owls Cap Clip Divot Tool & 3 Ball Gift Set LWCAPGFT $28.95 The perfect gift for any golfer. This gift set contains three imprinted Top-Flite XL golf balls, four wood tees and one magnetic cap clip & divot tool combo with a printed, removable, ball marker…. |