Heron made visit.....

[Gloria]

Heron made visit to our pond this morning but he couldn't get in since we netted it and put sorta a snow fence around the pond
so we could keep the leaves out. Heron just stood by pond and turned his head back and forth tying to find a way in. But he couldn't
get in. Those plastic heron's don't work for sure but netting does.

[miguynmkoi]

Fantastic!  Netting works for me too.  Darn Heron as beautiful as they look - darn them, in my garden that is. 

What is a snow fence?

[KatFish]

Oh, you silly Californians!    Just teasing.  It's a type of plastic fencing you see sometimes up north.  Usually around here they use it to protect plants like hedges, probably from the huge piles the plows kick up.  I've never used it, but good idea on keeping the leaves out!

[Kittyzee]

What is a snow fence?

It's an orange plastic fence put up in the fall and taken down in the spring.  Placed alonside a driveway (usually) so that when the wind and snow blow in from a certain direction, the snow fence slows the wind and the snow drops by the fence:  allowing the driveway to not drift in.....  

I'm with Katfish...you silly Californians!!!       

[Gloria]

Ours is green. I guess you wouldn't know since you don't get snow or do you?

[Esther]

The old snowfence was slats painted red about 4.5' high spaced maybe 3" apart and held together with a heavy wire twisted around the slats in a couple three places. The county placed them in strategic places where the wind typically blows and fills certain roads with bad drifts. The snowfence would be rolled up in the spring after the snow was over.

Darn heron. As much as I don't want wildlife killed, I have a heavy thought to take a gun to them when I see them.

[Kittyzee]

Gloria:  Under my pic when I post, it tells you where I live--Ohio--and YES, we get snow...

[miguynmkoi]

  I grew up in New Brunswick, Canada and never encountered the term "snow fence".  The things I've learned from fellow ponders.    The snow only around here falls on the local mountains about 4000' above sea level (you're talking about the white stuff that makes driving up the mountain difficult, right?).  I live at about the 350' elevation level and have never seen snow at my doorstep.  Frost? Yes.  Hail?  Yes.  I welcome all hints of winter so a snow fence sounds fancy to me.

I wish I could have a dog fence around my front yard to prevent neighbors' dog toiletry 

[crazyfishlady]

I've seen snow fence used along beaches in the gulf and Florida to catch the sand to replenish the dunes.

[Julles]

Did he try to get into the pond and get tangled or stopped by the netting?  Or did he sense the net before even getting close?