Ravens are not the only one’s who place golf balls and hack at them in vain.
From: John Layton [
Sent: Friday, 19 August 2016 5:13 PM
To: Canberra birds <>
Subject: [canberrabirds] Raven with golf ball
While driving slowly along Stockdill Drive, Holt looking for birds this afternoon I noticed a raven flying along about three metres above the ground, its flight seemed laboured
as if hefting a load. The bird landed on a roadside timber strainer post and ignored me as I stopped 25 metres away, and through the binos I watched it place a golf ball in an indentation where the top of the post was starting to rot and hack at the ball.
I left a couple of minutes later and the bird was still pecking away in vain.
“Golf balls. Nevermore,” quoth the raven.
J
John Layton
Holt.
