My neighbor built a pond, then made that into the filter for 2 other
adjoining ponds and a couple "volcanoes" or "grottos" he had a local
concrete caster make for him.. they were modified manhole inserts,
anyway.. one day I was sitting inside and glanced out the window and
saw something odd .. looked a bit closer, I was seeing legs! They
were attached to a Blue Heron standing on top of the power pole at the
corner of where his and my property line was, and the heron was gazing
over at the pond. I called the neighbor and told him there was a
heron eyeing his fish! By then, the heron had glided on down and was
having a snack on his fish!

He purchased a large bit of plastic bird netting like one usually puts
over a fruit tree, or berry patch that you didn't want birds to get
into. He stretched that across the pond and he had no further trouble
with the blue heron. It never got entangled in it, but it went away.

Another time I was sitting here, and looked out the window, and saw a
familiar shape that I'd seen in the audubon bird book.. it was a
kingfisher. I'd never seen one, ever, but there was one on the power
lines across from his house, so I called him and said.. uh...look out
your front window across the street on the power lines.. you see that
bird? He said yah, I said he's gonna be snackin' on your fishies any
minute now.. and yup, it started dive bombing his ponds, so the
netting went up, he dive bombed into it .. bounced back up, and I
think it tried it one more time, and gave up. Didn't hurt him a bit,
but he didn't eat any more fish.

It's amazing how those birds manage to find these small pools in
people's yards in areas that they don't normally frequent. The pond
is nowhere near the river, or any other bodies of water, so you'd not
think they'd be around to spot them at all...not exactly in their
frequent flying area to spot it. But they do.

I've not seen any more herons, but there was another kingfisher across
the street last year and I told the new owners of the bird, and that I
could see it up there with a bright orange fish in its beak! So keep
an eyeball peeled for those too!

Janice

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 03:43:10 GMT, escapee
wrote:

I will rig something up tomorrow. It's not a huge pond like you have, so it
should be easy.

V


On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 01:37:14 GMT, opined:

I have never had any bird get tangled in mine, and I have never heard of anybody
finding a heron entangled either. leaves, yes. Ingrid

escapee wrote:

I think I will do the same. I would hate the heron to get all tangled in it,
though. I'll figure something out.

Thanks, Ingrid.

Victoria


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