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Practically every ornamental/drainage pond around here has a great blue heron, as well as a batch of Canada geese.

As to The Great Blue Herons haunting ornamental, well of koi's they do, nice fat lazy goldfish, good eating there.

And the rentention ponds have snakes, frogs, and peripatetic turtles, Heron food. Amazing to watch them, staring down intently until the lighting strike. Then beak to the sky, neck straightened a bit comes the juggling act, getting the prey into the gullet. Sometimes the prey escapes, but rarely. Then it's much like watching a snake feed but faster down the long neck.

First time I saw a Heron foot print in the mud along side a big pond's edge, it was bigger than the span of my hand. For a split second I thought velociraptor.... naaah... still until I saw the bird....;>)

These aren’t ornamentals, just regular goldfish. It’s a farm pond that once was a watering hole for the dairy bovines when this was a working farm. I’m guessing some previous occupant dumped them there who knows how long ago. Glorified carp survive rather well over winters in these parts.

When we moved here eight? years ago we noted on the Googleearf view that there was a pond looking thing back behind the before-it-collapsed-barn so we went esplortin and found it in the years of overgrowth. In that esplortin adventure we noted flashes of red and other colors in the water and determined the source to be pretty carp.

Last summer our pond was visited almost daily by the big heronlike birdcreature and when I investigated I did not see the prettycarp so I assumed they had been gulletized. That doesn’t seem to be the case. And so far we haven’t seen the heron this year.

We have ‘coons but haven’t seen any of then since the Coy O’Tays have been circuiting past with greater frequency. Possums either for that matter.

Problem with the Coy O’Tays is they don’t hang around long enough to dig up an assault weapon from the field where whatever survived the boating accident got buried so they can be suitably perforated and pelt-itized..

Now I must retreat to the interior spaces as my combined thermal image and carbon dioxide emissions have revealed my location to a squadron of socialists who want a free lunch.