I found two yellow perch laying in the water this morning with that telltale beak strike just behind the head. One of them was in the process of releasing eggs. However in all objective fairness the heron may have struck the fish on the way out. That is, the fish may have been dying from spawning stress (I loose a few female perch every year due to this) and were floundering on the surface near the edge of the pond and the heron instinctively struck.

I have quickly put up a staked parameter around the pond though so he or she won't be able to get into the water or even be able to strike anything along the edge. I'll add pics tomorrow.


Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 04/24/13 02:31 PM.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.