Several species of wildlife have been spotted on the Kampen Course, formerly known as the North Course, making their homes in the ponds and tall grasses. According to course maintenance superintendent Jim Scott, at least 16 goslings like those above hatched on the course this year. In the early morning, as the sun comes up and the dew sparkles on the grass, the shadows are long on the Kampen Golf Course. A great blue heron slowly walks through a pond in search of fish. A mother goose hurries her goslings toward their home among the tall grasses.
Wood ducks float along the edge of a lake.
A great horned owl watches it all from the safety of the tree branches above. Jim Scott enjoys that part of the day the most. Scott is the maintenance superintendent for the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex . Not a day goes by, he says, that he isn't proud and pleased with the progress that has been made since the old Purdue North Course was redesigned by Pete Dye. Not a day goes by that he doesn't see some other way to make it even better.