The message
from Kay Easton contains these words:

A friend who has a large pond was troubled with a heron that often dropped
in for an early breakfast. She tried putting a low wire around the
perimeter, that didn't work. When on the point of conceding defeat to the
bird, she found a life-sized, suitably painted resin grey heron. She
positioned it looking into the water from the bank and has had no further
visits from real herons. As resin heron was so lifelike, she did
wonder if a
real heron might just take a fancy to him/her. Perhaps one did and
found the
experience hard going!

One of the urglers did have that experience!

Wasn't me, miss, honest miss.

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