heron

has anyone dealt with heron and have you had any luck???

Irv Slater wrote:
has anyone dealt with heron and have you had any luck???



Since I installed a Scarecrow, I've had no herons visit
my pond. No groundhogs either (they use to eat the water
celery in my veggie filter).

--
Bonnie
NJ

Irv Slater wrote:
has anyone dealt with heron and have you had any luck???



Since I installed a Scarecrow, I've had no herons visit
my pond. No groundhogs either (they use to eat the water
celery in my veggie filter).

--
Bonnie
NJ

We usually just kill them.... Hahah. Just kidding. There's plenty of ways.
The easiest is setting up a scarecrow and you move it around every so often.
The hardest/most annoying is setting up wildlife netting over the pond.
There's also motion detecting sprinklers and motion detecting sirens. They
are protected by law. But then again almost 9 out of 10 of the birds out
there are protected.

Sam

"Irv Slater" wrote in message
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has anyone dealt with heron and have you had any luck???

We usually just kill them.... Hahah. Just kidding. There's plenty of ways.
The easiest is setting up a scarecrow and you move it around every so often.
The hardest/most annoying is setting up wildlife netting over the pond.
There's also motion detecting sprinklers and motion detecting sirens. They
are protected by law. But then again almost 9 out of 10 of the birds out
there are protected.

Sam

"Irv Slater" wrote in message
...
has anyone dealt with heron and have you had any luck???

After loss of almost all my fish twice, I finally listened to these wise
people and applied Netting. All have survived since. I use plant stakes,
like for peonies, that keep the net about 18" above the pond then secure the
bottom with rocks. Joann
"Irv Slater" wrote in message
...
has anyone dealt with heron and have you had any luck???

After loss of almost all my fish twice, I finally listened to these wise
people and applied Netting. All have survived since. I use plant stakes,
like for peonies, that keep the net about 18" above the pond then secure the
bottom with rocks. Joann
"Irv Slater" wrote in message
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has anyone dealt with heron and have you had any luck???

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:57:34 GMT, "Irv Slater"
wrote:

has anyone dealt with heron and have you had any luck???

Got to agree with the others, netting has worked the best for me. I use a thin,
relatively cheap plastic netting that does enough to dissuade them.

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:57:34 GMT, "Irv Slater"
wrote:

has anyone dealt with heron and have you had any luck???

Got to agree with the others, netting has worked the best for me. I use a thin,
relatively cheap plastic netting that does enough to dissuade them.

The labrador girls and I scared away our heron over a period of a day. It never
came back (that we know of).
Here are a few methods:
Heron tips:
- netting over the pond.
- put in an electric fido fence
- a motion activated sprinkler
- Migratory Bird Act forbids lethal methods,
heavy fines and jail time take away from pond time ;-)

good luck!
k30a
and the watergardening labradors
http://www.geocities.com/watergarden...dors/home.html