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Ducks, heron and egrets...oh my!
« on: June 05, 2007, 02:55:39 PM »
Geez, will the list of preditors never end? This afternoon there was an egret at my pond! Can't tell if anyone is missing at this point. My 2 biggest fish are still there though. Hope the rest are hiding!
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Re: Ducks, heron and egrets...oh my!
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2007, 03:06:59 PM »
Oh, NO.....I hope all is safe.   :boxing: &-) :boxing:

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Re: Ducks, heron and egrets...oh my!
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2007, 10:30:16 PM »
Yikes, it's time for a canopy.
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Re: Ducks, heron and egrets...oh my!
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2007, 09:36:55 AM »
I haven't had any ugly visitors yet but there is a family of egrets in the neighborhood  {:-P;;
I better get some protection for my babes!!

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Re: Ducks, heron and egrets...oh my!
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2007, 10:38:21 AM »
I know the feeling. I lost a fish to a Blue Heron in the middle of the winter. My pond was about 95% frozen over except for around the heater and it somehow must have speared the fish. The heron took off and dropped it's dinner when I walked out to my pond. No way was he going away with a full stomach.

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Re: Ducks, heron and egrets...oh my!
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2007, 10:44:21 AM »
Geez, will the list of preditors never end?

Nope. I have the same problem.  >:( :(

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Re: Ducks, heron and egrets...oh my!
« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2007, 08:38:32 PM »
Build it and they will come, isn't always a good thing. {nono}

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Re: Ducks, heron and egrets...oh my!
« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2007, 04:21:39 AM »
 ;D funny Bonnie.
Well, I fear for my new baby yellow koi. I'd seen it swimming around often, now I haven't seen it for a week.
I did resort to the ugly fishling tactic yesterday morning after laying awake all night worrying about some bird fishing while I was asleep!
Last year when I did it I stilllost some fish though. This time I put it at different levels. It's keeping my dog off there anyway.

I have another issue though. I'll post a seperate thread on
I have lost about 4, 1 year old mules. Every few days I am finding one floating. The others were pretty badly decayed so I didn't inspect them. the one yesterday must have just died. Nothing appears wrong with it except one gill seems that it may have a little blood. I'll try to post a pic on the new thread. I testged my water a few days ago and everything is good. PH and hardness alittle high, which is normal for our water here. We did have ALOT of rain  on Sunday- couple inches added to the pond. But I wouldn't think it would kill a fish days later. It also seem sto only be effecting the mule which is odd. Do they have a shorter lifespan?
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