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Restaurant expansion

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Posted by Laurel7286 z 6/7 Maryland (My Page) on
Tue, Nov 1, 05 at 19:41

Well everyone, the Murphy salad bar has undergone expansion.

Sunday morning my H walked out toward the pond, and guess who was there? Our most unexpected guest, Great Blue Heron.

Fishing.

Successfully.

Cleaned us out except for one small goldfish.

And here I thought I had seen it all with the deer, groundhogs, raccoons, fox, possums, rabbits, chipmunks, moles, voles, and mice. Sigh.

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Did you know that feeder goldfish grow pretty big pretty fast? And at about 10 cents a piece, it hurts a lot less when Mr. Heron and Mr. Raccoon come to dine than when they munch out on on koi.

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Laurel

Sorry to hear about your loss to the Heron.

If you want them I have an overstock of shabunkins and comets 4-5 inchers. I'm in Clinton MD.

Les

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I have had herons, and finally gave in and put nets up year round. My large koi are so loved, I couldn't bear it. Even though I have a lot of waterlilies in the summer, I like the net anyway. I cut some bamboo (happy to let you have some at the spring swap) and criss-crossed it across the pond, then the netting on top. Has worked like a charm, and is hardly visible. I leave some room at the edges so birds don't get caught in it and I check it once a day (sometimes junior fish jump up and into it -- no casulaties yet.

  
 

 

 


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