Wildlife Sightings at Niakwa Country Club

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Wildlife Sightings

  • Member
    Baby turtle at Niakwa
  • Snapper on patrol
    Checking out slope on 16 seeking partner on 4
  • Bandit
    Mommy
  • Mother and brood
    Good weather for ducks
  • Turtle nests
    Its baby turtle season! watch for nests in bunkers
  • Ducklings
    A mother duck has her hands (wings) full with many ducklings
  • Eggshell
    Signs of robins nesting near the clubhouse
  • Swimming Snapping turtle
    a large snapping turtle swimming near the surface of the pond, June 3rd
  • Water, water everywhere…..
    Trees can absorb 200 gallons of water daily and adapt well in standing water with the exception of Oaks.
  • Water Plants
    1001 USES: medicinal, culinary, and environmentally friendly clothing and household uses in addition to a perch for red-winged blackbirds, cattails add great benefits to waterways and wildlife.
  • Beware of POISON IVY!
    A trinity of shiny leaves – just of the gravel path from 16 green to 17 tee
  • Safe shared corridors for wildlife
    Forged by deer, fox, stoats…et.al. , this naturalized non-playing space has become a safe shared transportation corridor beside 10 Tee.
  • Pielated Woodpecker
    Near the 10th Green on Sunday, Oct 27th.
  • Me thinks a mink
    There was some debate about whether this was a Martin or a Mink
  • Giant turtle
    August 27,2023
  • Black Swallowtail Butterfly
    Black Swallowtail resting in the rough between holes 13 and 15
  • Monarch Catterpilars
    two monarch caterpillars munching away in the milkweed nursery
  • Fawn
    Hours Old
  • Birds
    This morning birds
  • It’s in the mouth
    Out for breakfast
  • May 12, 2023
    Turtle crossing the cart path
  • Red Eared Slider Babies
    newly hatched turtles found on 8 green
  • Inconspicuous
    Chillin
  • Security patrol
    Golf ball hunter
  • Deer hiding
    Staying out of wind
  • River otters
    Winter morning walk
  • Various
    Few pics from our walk this morning
  • Turtle
    August 31st, 2022. 7 am. #15 green
  • Deer and fawn
    17 th hole
  • Young Bucks
    3 Young Bucks lounging on the course. August 4th, 2022.
  • Fawns
    In the grass between 10th white tees and 18th green
  • Deer
    July 03, 2022, two of the three deer that were making their way across the practice tee.
  • Fawns
    July 02, 2022, two fawns next to the 12th tee.
  • Painted Turtle
    Helped this little guy get to the river safely
  • Turtle
    June 19th, 2022 Father’s Day 35°C, feels like 45°C Hole 16 And this turtle is just bathing in the sun ☀️
  • Coyote
    Coyote keeping watch from the hazard on #8
  • White Tail Deer
    Buck laying to the right of 9 green
  • Snapping turtle nest
    Thursday May 26th 9am, bunker near 16 green, snapping turtle tracks and nest entrance
  • Fox
    Fox pups sitting outside their den
  • Great Horned Owl
    Great Horned Owl spotted by 5 green
  • Great Horned Owl
    Nesting Great Horned Owls sighted on #5
  • Coyotes
    Pack of Coyotes out for a cold morning walk by the Turfcare compound.
  • Deer
    Mom and Baby along the 13th
  • Baby turtles
    Hatchlings leaving nest. In the practice bunker 3:00 p.m. Monday, Sept 13, 2021
  • Red Tailed Hawk
    Red-Tailed Hawk between 13 and 15. It had a squirrel pinned down. 5pm Aug.31 2021.
  • Fox
    Fox playing in the sand on 6th fairway
  • Turtles
    Turtle on 16th fairway
  • Young Geese
    Young Geese
  • Red-tailed Hawk
    Spotted in the left trees up the 7th fairway, August 18th AM
  • Deer
    Sited at 10:11 AM, July 24th on or around Hole #4
  • turtle
    Baby turtle compared to golf ball
  • Canada Goose Family
    Family outing at the 6th on Saturday Afternoon at NCC – May 15th.
  • Turtles sun bathing
    Young turtles enjoying the sun on a log near the 13th tee box. May 15th, 2021.
  • Goose on Eggs
    Goose sitting on her eggs within the burnt area near the 10th tees.  May 13th, 2021.
  • Geese & Goslings
    Hole 4 May 15, 2021
  • Turtle
    Hole 11 May 16, 2021
  • Snapping Turtle
    This snapping turtle was on the move from the Seine River to the pond on hole 16 on Tuesday May 11th, 2021.
  • Red Fox
    August 10 2020. Seen in the right rough off the 6th tee.
  • Baby Deer
    Newborn deer on 16th fairway. 11AM Sunday June 12th, 2020
  • Bluejay

    June 2, 2020. Bluejay spotted near 13th tee box. 

  • Mallard Duck
    July 21,2020.  One of many ducks that was wandering on the 16th fairway.
  • Snapping Turtle
    Spotted August 15th, 2020. Crawling onto the 16th green from the adjacent pond.
  • Raccoon

    Spotted in a tree on the 18th fairway at about 8 pm May 15th, 2015. A family of raccoons scurried up the tree as we approached.