Hugh Downing & snowy egrets (upper left in photo & below)

Easy to get a birdie on this golf course

Retired BJ printer Hugh Downing and newsroom retiree John Olesky played the El Diablo golf course in The Villages, Florida and encountered dozens of snowy egrets between the tee box and the green.

No birdies were harmed or scored in this scenario.

Hugh and wife Sharon have lived in The Villages, which is Disneyland for adults with its 2,200 clubs and 47 golf courses and 50,000 golf carts, about a dozen years.

John played the day before with a couple from Clinton in Summit County, Ohio. The husband installed the windows in the Tallmadge condo on Hilltop Terrace that John and Paula Tucker own in 1999, five years before John and Paula bought a condo off Thomas Road.