The usual conversation in the golf shop about whether ravens target orange balls or ‘will take any ball’. Notwithstanding I got a box of new Callaway bright orange matte finish. Yesterday at Royal Narrabundah at the very
first hole a raven flew directly down and took the first (virgin) Callaway orange matte finish back to its pine tree. Thereafter an ordinary white ball was used without incident. I don’t know about all Canberra courses but Narrabundah and Duntroon are particularly
bad for this sort of thing. I believe a small number of orange-fixated resident ravens are the main problem. Certainly white balls are taken occasionally.
