Westchase Golf Course’s 213 acres offer sanctuary to a myriad of wildlife including alligators, deer, turtles, bobcats as well as countless native and migratory birds. Since opening in 1992, at least two mating pairs of American bald eagles have nested in pine trees on the golf course. Indian blue peacocks have strutted their stuff in the hammock forest adjacent to hole number 3. Several species of ducks and other waterfowl migrate south to the warmer Florida climate annually nesting in the undergrowth around the open water of the large lake in the center of the property. In early spring you are sure to spot a mother hen with her new ducklings in tow.
World-renowned photographer and native Floridian, Carlton Ward, Jr. captured the nature of Westchase here.