~ Windsong ~ wrote:
In the last chapter: Bonnie Espenshade picked up the keyboard and
pecked out:
:: It didn't work for me with the green heron. It would
:: stab a fish through the net and then leave the fish to
:: die,
** Bonnie. I watched the herons here. They don't STAB fish. They catch
them in their beaks, flip them head first towards their throat and swallow
them. If they stabbed them they would be unable to OPEN their beaks to eat
them. Your net was too close to the water. Our nets are above the water by
about 18". They can't reach the fish below, nor is the net's 1" size big
enough for them to remove a fish should they somehow weigh down the net and
grab one. They will *not* land on the netting. I've seen them land near
the pond's edge and look for an opening in the net. They'd go around and
back again. After awhile they gave up and flew off. We didn't see any last
summer, or so far this summer. The local heron population probably knows
it's a waste of time to try and fish here. :-)
because it couldn't get it out from under the net.
** If it couldn't get it out of the net where did it leave the fish to die?
It would fall back into the water when the heron let go of it. Again, they
don't STAB the fish. The Kingfishes (we think it was a KF) didn't stab
them either. They caught them as a heron does and flew away with them in
their beaks.
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((¸¸.·´* ~ * Carol * ~ *
I'm not the type to agrue, but this is what happened in my
yard. I saw the green heron trying to stab the goldfish
through a net leave and later found the fish under the net
on the slate next to the pond.
The other occasion, I saw a great blue with a koi in it's
beak I chased it off and I tried to save the young koi but
it had a hole in it's head. The only way I can imagine it
got a hole in it's head was that it was stabbed by the
heron. I put the netting up again. My netting was
supported by pvc pipe. The great blue would stand on the
pvc and watch the fish and try to get them through the net.
It finally gave up and left and hasn't returned this year.
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Bonnie
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