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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Now You See Them - Now You Don't

Remember these critters?  The goldfish in my pond?  They were there on Sunday.  I saw them from the deck when we had a campfire and made s'mores.


Here they are earlier this spring on a rainy day.


And here more recently as fuzzy gold shapes in the water.


As of Tuesday, they were gone.



No goldfish to be seen.



I think the heron I saw last week that landed in my backyard momentarily until I startled it, returned and had its fill. 
 I wonder what the absence of the goldfish will do to our lack of mosquitoes?  On the other hand I won't need to run the hose to fill up the pond when we have had no rain for an extended time.  I wonder how long it will be before the heron returns for the frogs?

2 comments:

Fun60 said...

There must be a very smug looking heron flying around near you.

Stewart M said...

Even a heron has to eat! A friend of mine in Ohio has had similar problems - I think he ended up putting chicken wire of the pond.

Sorry for the much delayed reply - I've been in the UK for a month and I decided to let the blogging take a back seat - normal service will resume very soon!

Stewart M - Melbourne