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Shorty #382250 07/14/14 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted By: Bluegillerkiller
He's laughing at you!!!

And flashing me as well!

But I WILL get the last laugh! grin


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Assuming a GBH before the turtles got to him...


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That almost looks like a clean Snapper bite right through his back!


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odl, just nicked up a little. Toss him back in, he should be fine...


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Originally Posted By: rmedgar
odl, just nicked up a little. Toss him back in, he should be fine...



Lol that was pretty funny


I believe in catch and release. I catch then release to the grease..

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Can't you guys just shoot them?

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Not legally


I believe in catch and release. I catch then release to the grease..

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I use rubber buckshot at 100 yards NO CLOSER or it could really hurt the bird. Extra full choke


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Originally Posted By: Bluegillerkiller
Not legally


If you have a licensed aquaculture facility, (I am one) you can apply for a permit to lethally remove them.

A friend down in Texas gets a permit to remove cormorants from his ponds. He averages around 200/year.


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I have never seen this before,,,a Great Blue Heron didn't see me and came flying low over my head,,,a male Redwing Black Bird at the top of a spruce tree watching out for their young just learning to fly, came out of the tree attacking the Heron in the back. A couple of days later as I approached the pond I scared up another blue heron and as the heron started flying from the pond a male Redwing came out of the top of a tree and attacked this heron. So I am guessing that a heron may be a threat to baby birds.


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John, my Mockingbirds have done the same thing. The GBH will fly off through a clump of trees at the top of my big pond, and the Mockingbirds swarm after him. The GBH ain't happy at all. Mockingbirds and Blue Jays are pretty aggressive when they're nesting.


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Blue herons are everywhere here. When I was younger a cottage full of people with me watched as one caught a chipmunk running by and drowned it by holding it under water then ate it.

I say, do what you need to do to protect your farm/investment. They are a pretty bird but if my livelihood was selling minnows, I don't think I would find them that pretty.

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GBHs will eat whatever they can catch, ducklings, turtles, snakes, chipmunks, gophers, muskrats...












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I've seen them in alfalfa fields looking for mice.


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If they go after my ducklings, WE are going to have to talk......


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Those are good picture of the GBH eating. It looks like the snake may have struck the GBH.


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I wish they ate geese....


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Originally Posted By: esshup
I've seen them in alfalfa fields looking for mice.


It wouldn't surprise me if they landed in trees and plucked baby birds out of the nests that they can reach.



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Originally Posted By: dlowrance
I wish they ate geese....

Now that's just darn funny, considering I just read the thread on your goose experiment gone awry!


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Originally Posted By: dlowrance
I wish they ate geese....


Heron eats gosling.


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I will never look at a GBH the same way again! I never realized how much of a top line predator they are.

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Yesterday I talked to a guy at the farmers market who said great blue herons were killing his KOI. He said since herons were territorial he put a heron statue in his KOI pond and hasn't had any problems since.


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A long time ago when I stocked my first pond, the fish seller(now long deceased) told me to shoot any long billed bird that came near the pond. He was right. He should have also told me to keep my mouth shut about it. They are Federally protected.


It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.

Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.

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The good news is that the GBH is very territorial. They will chase off other GBH's and Egrets.

And if you were to illegally "take" out a GBH, another one will be right behind it. So have a little patience and let him/her have its due. You are probably not taking out enough fish out of your pond anyway.

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I chased a GBH off my pond last night when I went to feed the fish. crazy

My guess he is going after my huge emerging bullfrog population, I have little bullfrogs everywhere.



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