Re: [GSAS-Member] great blue heron

[clayton anderson <naturalart@earthlink.net>]

Sorry to hear your loss Betty, great blue herons reproduce every year; 
all it takes is a 'first-year' bird, desperate and hungry, and not 
knowing any better, to discover a barrel of fish and its curtains. But 
hopefully, you intervened soon enough, and you still have a few adult 
fish left:-)( cross your fingers)

Clay A.

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> From: "Betty Goetz" <haika@drizzle.com>
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> I may be adult goldfish-less. All it took was one great blue heron. My
> neighbors told me they saw it arrive on Friday, sit on my porch railing
> for 1/2 hour, and then an hour later fly up from under my deck to my 
> roof
> where it sat for another hour. This was while I was at work. On Friday
> evening, I noticed that nothing came up for food, but I figured since 
> it
> was cool and wet, they were too cold to be hungry so I simply netted 
> the
> food and tossed it back over the fence to the poultry. Then on 
> Saturday I
> saw a GBH stalk by UNDER the upstairs deck checking out my live culture
> tubs. My deck extends out roughly 15-20' and this heron was only 8' or 
> so
> from my slider...I NEVER thought a heron would come under the deck to
> steal goldfish! But I netted both my whiskey-barrel sized tubs and 
> found
> no adults...although I did net fry from both of the shubunkin ponds. My
> Rubbermaid stock tanks are iffy....I've seen the waterlilies move like
> fish are swimming deep below but nothing comes to the surface. I 
> haven't
> seen Trish's sarassas either...although they may be hanging out in the
> brick pile which is where they stayed for several days when newly
> introduced to the tank. They never were really keen on coming up to the
> surface, so I'll be really shocked if the heron got these guys. But I
> haven't seen them since Friday morning. Both the 100 and 150g tanks are
> too large for me to net and so who knows. All my ponds are now covered
> with dog crate wire floor grates (they are sturdy and easy to remove 
> and
> replace). I hadn't used them this year because Adak wasn't pulling out 
> the
> parrotfeather and strewing it all over the patio any longer (weak 
> grin). I
> never ever thought a GBH would predate so close to the house...live and
> learn and warning to the rest of you with patio/deck/porch ponds (weak
> grin). I'm really bummed......
>
> I've got 7 fry so far from shubunkin ponds....plus a number of koi fry
> from Steev's contest. So...at least I've got something to rear to 
> replace
> the 17 potential lost beauties.
>
> By the way, the GBH has returned every day since the 'hunt'
>
> Betty Goetz
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