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back yard ponds and heron’s

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Topic: back yard ponds and heron’s

Posted By: Spot shooter
Subject: back yard ponds and heron’s
Date Posted: 30 August 2003 at 15:19

Talked with my parents this weekend,

They live in upstate NY, and had a blue heron clean out their yard pond from the Koi my mom bought.

Dad said the bugger ate $40 worth of them for breakfast - I tried not laughin.

Spot

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Posted By: CB900F
Date Posted: 30 August 2003 at 16:23

Dakotasin;

Several solutions come to mind. Have your parents post Hillary in the immediate vicinity of the pond. This should scare off any wildlife, although it may still kill the fish.

Stock the pond with piranah instead of koi. The piranah almost certainly won't last through the winter, but then neither will the heron.

Declare a 'local' heron season, dates are as necessary. There may be some resistance to this from the NY state game & fish. Have dad tell them that it's either this or open season on crack dealers, their choice. What could be fairer, I ask you?

900F

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Posted By: Triggerguard
Date Posted: 30 August 2003 at 17:29

I get calls from irate people wanting to trap racoons after
they ate a few hundred dollars worth of koi. Actually saw a kingfisher
hitting a backyard koipond once. He must have been lost, don't see them in town much.

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Posted By: Birdwatcher
Date Posted: 30 August 2003 at 18:58

At the urban school where I teach we put in a triangular pond about 15' on a side in the corner of our fenced in garden (8' fence, 50'x50' garden) . We stocked the pond with $1.50 Walmart fantail goldfish which five years later were as big as softballs.

One year they started disappearing, I waited out at dusk. Sure enough a huge great blue heron comes in low over the school like a B-52. It folded up over the garden and dropped vertically in between the purple martin poles and stepped into the pond. A moment later it comes out holding our last fantail, beat it against the ground a few times and with, some effort, swallowed it. Going down, that goldfish looked like a grapefruit bulging down the neck of that heron.

Birdwatcher

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