~ jan wrote:
Monofiliment fishing line every few feet. Birds hit it while
flying and get scared (they just don't seem to see it). This
is high in the air over the pond, very easy to miss asthetically.
I've been on pond tours and not seen it at all until someone points
it out. It can be three feet apart for large birds like herons and
you don't need a grid, just one direction, from what I've seen.

And no, they don't just fly around it. They panic. Its like (poetic license
here) bumping into a ghost...


I tried that and the birds simply lifted his foot (very
gracefully) and stepped over the line.


Bonnie, either you've got some very long legged birds or you missed the
part above where he said "high in the air" over the pond. ;o) ~ jan

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Okay, I did miss that. I was putting the fishing line over
the raised pond and I was doing it quickly, it was only
about 1' above the raised pond. If I were to put it high
over the pond - the bird would have come in under the
fishing line. What would stop that? As I remember, the
heron landed in the back field and slowly walked up to the
fence, hopped onto it and then hopped down and walked to the
pond. I found netting was the only way to stop this bird
and it continued to try for quite awhile after the netting
was up.
--
Bonnie
NJ