[MEG33]

In California ..near the coast ..a net over the pond is the only solution to heron fishing. A friend lost almost all her koi until she covered her pond..I had a juvenile red tailed hawk perch in the dogwood a few times this summer. It is the only hawk I have seen here.

Personally..I’d rather not have a cover on a pond..I’d go the goldfish route!

[Lady Jag]

We have netting, but have been thinking like you, MEG. We don’t need fancy koi and buying feeder goldfish, we know we might be preserving at least some of those fishies’ lives.

It’s nature for the hawks to go for them and with all the miles of woods around us we will never have a shortage of predatory birds and animals. Oddly the raccoons have never bothered with the pond.