Re: [GSAS-Member] great blue heron

["Betty Goetz" <haika@drizzle.com>]

I'm hoping that the wire covers will protect anything that's left. They
are pretty sturdy and I'm hoping the gaps in the grating are narrow enough
(<1/2 ")to keep him from trying for whatever is left. I have a gut feeling
that there may be some survivors in the deeper stock tanks, but they are
really freaked out right now. There's lots of 'cover' down deep....brick
piles and waterlily containers. Fingers crossed. And the dogs have chased
him both Saturday and Sunday...Adak almost got him when he was perching on
the deck railing last evening. The neighbors watched the whole thing and
told me Adak snuck up within inches before leaping....so he got a GOOD
scare.

I still can't believe he was walking around on the patio under the deck!

I stopped by The Fish Store just now and picked up some gorgeous
shubunkins....smaller than the ones I 'had', but some with lots of orange
so I don't feel so bereft. They also had some 'maybe' female featherfin
rainbows (grin)....and some celestial pearl danios (I HATE that name)for a
good price so I guess the term 'retail therapy' comes to mind (grin)....

Betty Goetz

> Betty-
> I can't believe the nerve of those things.
> Once he makes you a stop on his regular route it will be hard to drive him
> away,
> especially if he got a few fish. But they do sit and watch for a long time
> before they
> move in for the kill. I think the best thing to do right now is to start
> stringing
> fishing line all over the place so that he will be afraid of getting
> trapped. You don't
> want the dogs to get tangled in though.
> Maybe the fish got wise after his first attempts and they are ... some of
> them .. still
> hiding. Maybe.
>
> Steev

_______________________________________________
GSAS-Member mailing list
GSAS-Member@thekrib.com
http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member