Wild Life

Seminole Lakes Wildlife

Photo Credits: Geri Bodnar

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Seminole Lakes as a Wildlife Sanchuary

Wildlife is abundant at Seminole Lakes.
Stories are told of raccoons stealing golf balls on #3. Fish Crows stealing balls and taking flight on #12.
Osprey and Eagles fish daily in our lakes. A brown Pelican regularly visits the lake along #18 during the winter season.
Cormorants not a summer resident in our lakes return in the winter and claim the lake around #13 as home for the season.
Sometimes they swim in formation. Mottled ducks are resident and claim the lake on and around #5 their home.
Fierce flights have been observed when one invades another’s ‘territory’.
#5 and #11 are homes to Sand hill Cranes and there are gopher turtles on #11.
Bald Eagles often use the old snag behind #9 as a perch.

Our winter visitors who fly the farthest (we think) are from the northern tier of the NW Canadian Provinces.
Yes we do have gators and this year mama brought her babies to the lake on #3 tee box.
A Red Shoulldered hawn nests in a live oak tree on teh 17th fairway.

Nesting Great Blue Herons and Anninga’s can be seen from many of our greens.
Year-around and winter residents (the true snow birds) include migratory waterfowl/shore birds, raptors, and song birds.
All of the listed birds are here winter and/or summer. Song birds are abundant, warblers, thrushes, cardinals, swifts, etc.

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