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Great Blue Heron - How Big of Fish Will They Eat?
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:46:35 CST, falcon
wrote: Ditto that problem here, JB. A GBH took a nice roughly 16" Kohaku from us yesterday, and although I caught him in the act as he was about to swallow it, he was able to quickly fly off with the Koi still hanging halfway out of its beak. I saw him finish it off in the tops of a large pine tree two lots over. I was also hoping the size of our other Koi would be a deterrent, but from reading this and other forums, unfortunately that seems overly optimistic. Even if they can't eat them given a larger size, it seems much damage, some fatally so, is already done with the spearing. Our pond design doesn't lend itself to netting or wires, and although we feed only bottom food, have never hand fed so the Koi aren't accustomed to coming up very close to us on the pond edges, and have 5 foot depths in many places with reefs and ledges under which they can hide, unfortunately they do enjoy surface swimming and quite frankly, I'm just hoping at least some of them are able to learn to stay deep... Do you have any of pictures of your pond on-line by chance? ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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Great Blue Heron - How Big of Fish Will They Eat?
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:41:29 CST, falcon
wrote: No, but I visited your website and found your email address, so I'll send you a PM. Got them... and wow, one would hate to net or doing anything to distract from that loveliness. Ever try a motion sprinkler? So far so good here using them. Nice site, Thanks. :-) BTW, especially the hawk vs the heron picture. We have barred owls and red-shouldered hawks which also frequent our pond, so maybe they'll help out with heron control. I have actually discouraged the barred owls when I've seen them in the past, as I saw one catching and eating one of our 6" Yamabuk Ogons, but I'll take the owl over the heron any day. We had a Great Horned owl up in the neighbors tree sleeping a couple weeks ago. I didn't remember your owl story... course the ponds are currently screened so well protected right now. Just have to remember those are around. ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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