"Greg Cooper" wrote in message
news:QKYfe.47692$vN2.29122@clgrps13...
When we first put the pond in - before we planted the yard with trees we
were visted by both a King Fisher and a Heron.

$$ We also had a King Fisher for awhile. It would usually take the smaller
fish, preferring the most colorful goldfish and young koi. :-(

The Heron never got any fish as we spotted him and chased him off and I
think he probably felt it was not worth the effort. Right when we
first stocked our new pond with 5 two inch gold fish the very next
morninng we awoke to see the Kingfisher dining on his second.

$$ Sickening isn't it? We watched a KF carry off our prettiest GF one
day - as we drove into our driveway. He/she had it in it's beak. We
haven't seen any more KF since we netted the ponds. They wont dive into the
shallow kiddy pools, but I net most of those as well since we also have a
snake and bullfrog problem here. Although I've seen several large snakes
this spring I haven't seen one bullfrog, just a few small green frogs.

The
strange thing is the Kingfisher did not come back for more.

$$ It may have been passing through.....
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