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Old 02-05-2007, 04:13 PM posted to uk.d-i-y,uk.rec.gardening
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Default Making garden pond heron-proof


"vortex2" wrote in message
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Hi,

In the next couple of weeks we are seriously "upgrading" our garden pond
to be approx 15m^2 (is/was about 3 m^2).

Local herons seem to feed well from garden ponds, so historically we had
fruit cage netting covering ours to prevent them harvesting our fish. A
complete eyesore.

Any ideas/suggestions for a less visually intrusive method for making the
pond unattractive to herons (and for that matter wild ducks)?


Herons are very territorial, so a dummy heron at the pond side works well.

Colin Bignell