Fishing

[hlb]

Every time I get up. Theres a bloody big stork looking thing stood by my pond. Is it eating my baby Koi Carp. It darnt eat the daddy ones, they'd probably bite its nose off. Or is it trying to hump my plasic stork thats there to defend the fish??

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Haydn

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Its not a Stork, its a Heron. Storks are for delivering babies not eating fish
We have the same problem. We tried covering the pond in netting but the bloody thing just stuck its beak through. Doh!
Eventually we encouraged the dog to view the Heron as fair game and we've had no more problems

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[ccscott49]

You'll have to train Dirty Harry, to chase him away, or you won't have any baby koi! Herons love em'

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[gonfishing]

hi haydn
chances are it's not a stork but a very hungry and exteremely greedy heron and yes if you allow him he will clear your pond out completely herons will not land on water and prefer to walk up to and into a pond so the only real and effective way to deter the bird is to restrict the flight path to the pond and place a trip wire about 18 inches high around the pond just far enough away so that the bird cannot get to the water as the bird will be unable to climb over it.
p.s they are a protected species so please put the shotgun away!!!!

julian

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[longjohnsilver]

BANG!

So what's heron pie like Haydn? Save some for me. /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[hlb]

The rest might be protected but not this one. I'll ring it'd bloody neck if I get hold of it.

I think the trip wire idea sounds like a goer. Would barbed wire be better and maybe stab the bugger!

Mind you. It will probaly stab me and chuck me into the pond on the way back from pub!!
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Haydn

 

[ccscott49]

Set up the old belt fed shotgun Haydn, put up a flak barrage!! That'll curb it's appetite! It'll sink with all those lead pellets in it!

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[hlb]

Iwas wondering if I could get the fish to eat the stork!!

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Haydn

 

[hlb]

Right. I've now fitted two trip wires at about 9 and 18 inch. So if one dont get it the other will. Think I have got the picture now. So I have left the lump hammer close by, for when Stork thingy trips up. I feel a bit like Crockadile Dundee now!!........./forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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Haydn

 

[tcm]

Re: aerial defences

You can also put wires from around the pond up into the trees, which muck up their flight path, don't need to be super-tight.

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[ccscott49]

Now theres an Idea, A guard crocodile! That would slow the bastard down a bit! I can see it now, creep, creep, SNAP!! One leg gone, heron capsizes! SNAP, SNAP, exit one heron, mind you might not have many carp left!.......hmmmmmm....back to the belt fed shotgun!

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[hlb]

Re: aerial defences

Ok. I can see me knacking my self here!!

Did they not put balloons up in the war, to prevent this type of attack from doodle bugs??

Haydn

 

[ccscott49]

Big buggers aren't they! Crocodile idea might work, he'd choke on one of those!!

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[tcm]

Re: aerial defences

hm yes. But i can't see that they worked, after all, the doodle bugs didn't go uh-oh balloons i had better turn round and fly back to Deutschland now did they? They would have crashed into the balloons or fallen out of the sky anyway.

Other heron traps include netting on the ground so they get all tangled up. Or a dummy pond further down the garden with pretend fish in but the pond is 10 feet deep even at the edge and the heron drowns or at least has to flap about to get out. Or dig out the ordinary pond so the same happenes there, maybe. Or a big mirror in the shape of a pond, with fish drawn on it, heron comes down and knackers his beak. You might consider making the fish a bit braver instead of enticing sitting about and being "coy" haha. Otherwsie you could just stop waiting for the carp to grow and fry them up now, so at least if they are going to get eaten then the heron gets none.

hope this helps


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[Guest]

a) Trip wires don't work

b) Plastic netting on top of the water does but looks gastly

My next try will be to include the pond inside a pergoda with chicken mesh over any gaps in the roof and sides

Geoff

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[hlb]

Re: aerial defences

I told you it's a big bugger!!

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Haydn

 

[sailbadthesinner]

i think the thing to do is mock up your stork so it looks like it has been done

break its neck so it hangs at a funny angle, burn a hole in the its chest red paint around the edges of gap and painted red strips of hoses pipe out the gap. Hang it upside down over the pond as a warning.

to be doubly safe buy a life size gnome holding a shot gun that fires blanks every three minutes.

reminds me of an old joke
little jewish boy
okay at school but singularly failing at maths much to parents dismay who had high hopes of himtaking over family accountancy firm.
They tried every school in the area, all to no avail.

Finally a friend suggested the local catholic school run by the brothers. Big classrooms with holy marys, pictures of saints and a crucified jesus

After two terms the boy has passed o and a levels and gained a scholarship to oxford to read accountancy and applied swindling.

His parents probe him to find out the reason

his answer was that it appeared they had nailed the last lad who could't add up to a big wooden plus sign.

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[stamfordian]

Re: aerial defences

Wrong bird you need a plastic Falcon on a pole!!

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[ccscott49]

Re: aerial defences

That's a stork, you need a heron, two herons won't fish at the same place, but a heron and a stork will! Shoot the bloody thing! and be done wiv' it. Lots of them about!! Then hang it up close like, then the any others will bugger off, they're not daft, like some folk I know! It might be able to step over wires, but not with two rounds of six shot in it!

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[hlb]

Re: aerial defences

Oh. We have another pond. Well at least Harry does, in his field. The stork thing usually sits by that and eats tadpoles. Normaly theres no problem with the flying doodle bug stork. Because my fishes are quite old and wise. So swim about in the deap water. But on Sunday we went for some more junior ones. They took one look at the big old daddy fishes and went to hide in the bull rushes before they got chance to be educated. This was there undoing IMHO cos the storky thing just wade in and ate them. Well at any rate, I have not seen them since!!

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Haydn