Crossbow.
Heron in Ont eating pond Coy
- Thread starter Rick65Cat
- Start date
Crossbow.
I tend to agree with the idea of letting nature run its course with minimal interference, although we've already interfered by changing the migratory habits of geese; they certainly weren't wintering in most areas of Canada before the smorgasbord of crop fields was presented to them by large-scale agriculture. So "they were here first" isn't entirely accurate through much of the year.
But enough side-tracks about geese and CWS and permits and such! This may be CGN's very first Heron Defense Thread; let's give it the respect it deserves!
I’m in...
CrazyFarmer has an 8 gauge puntgun.
Fill her full of black powder some scrap nails and iron and wait for them prehistoric herons just circle the pond once.
Then bust those caps.
robchar, there is a clip on the Internet where a women set one up in her pick up truck to stop thrives.
Shrub rides up into the drive and gets a shower.
I wonder iffen there wasn’t something special in the bucket ,like a recipee pee mix?
Rob
I haven't read back on the posts, but they at least used to see big plastic fake coy that you were supposed to anchor in your pond to distract herons from the real ones. My coy were indoors (don't ask now large the aquarium was, it breaks my heart to think about that magnificent tank) but anyway I always wondered if those decoys would work.
A friend of mine had Coy in a large pond and a heron used to pay a regular visit for his diner. Heavy mono fishing line was strung back and forth across the pond about 3ft off the surface and 6 ft apart. It worked, the heron eventually found a new pond to have his lunch.
- Location
- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
Not koi ponds but my wife’s opa used to have a fish hatchery back in the day, salmon and rainbow trout iirc. He used to shoot herons with is 12g out of the kitchen window from what I was told lol.
He owes you nothing...
New Camper
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Lurking in the woods near SFRC.
I'd consider arraying a grid of wires about 4" above the pond surface (trial and error dictating optimum dimensions but 20ga bare aluminum wire in rows about 3" apart is a good starting point... naturally this should be plugged into a GFCI) to will electrocute these robbers. Or a thinly insulated dummy decoy fish that when speared would deliver it's electrifying secret.
Great insight there....
Ummmmmm........ No..... This isn't a political issue.....
In fact, I place more value on that heron than I do on 100 coy
No offence hoss..... Fail to see why you are calling out looky..... Best just drop it, he certainly wasn't calling you out..... It's chill time....
Spoken like a true Liberal. Spend your own money on constructing a pond, maintaining a pond and buying 100 coy and then watch a bird eat them....then , tell me what you place value on. Easy to watch someone else's money disappear.
Spoken like a true city boy that has no clue what co-habitating with nature is all about.....
"I built a pretty coy pond, so now it's my right as a free citizen to destroy everything that threatens it"....
No offence op.....
