Thanks Cecil. Shorty (I think that's who said it) was going to buy one of those GBH decoys. I wonder how that is working out, if he got it.
Shorty said his Heron is no longer showing up so he held off on the decoy.
I too have a daily GBH visitor that I chase off every morning, and at 5pm when I get home from work. I read where they'll eat up to a 12" fish, so if it's helping clear out my LMB 12" and under I'm okay with that. But I hate the fact it may be getting my bullfrogs! Plus I've seen stab marks on much larger LMB than 12".
I found this one on top of the dam Wednesday night. No autopsy will be performed as I don't care what caused it's demise and there's no visible wounds, but kinda cool to get a close-up look at it. It's wingspan was right at 6'.
I also read the following so I didn't want to mess with it too much:
Disease Threat
Great blue herons have been documented to carry the West Nile Virus. Contracting histoplasmosis from
contaminated soil below a heron rookery could be a valid concern.
And sure enough, there was another one the next morning taking his place
