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Tracy the spikerush grows completely underwater and is widespread and not in clumps . Very fine leafed and invasive in my opinion

And I thought Spikerush was a shoreline type plant that grew along the water edge, sometimes the base of the plant under water and sometimes at the edge. Looks like the leaves or stems are needle shaped. This is what I have around my pond . Tells you I am no aqua plant expert. Pat now as far as all this, my plant problem is Bushy pondweed, that stuff grows like crazy at my place. Hoping my newly stocked Grass carp eat it.

Per USDA Common Spikerush wants to keep it`s seed pod out of water. So if grows in saturated soils, but not flooded it will not grow tall. If flooded it will continue to grow up to 4 ft to keep the pods out of standing water.

The stuff here lives under water mostly. Late summer/fall it puts up I guess pods above water. It will grow in 6’ water with no pods. Very fine leaves or stems branched at stem

Two Bald Eagles flying over the pond. Looked like they were fighting over who gets to fish the pond. I'm sorry, but seeing bald eagles fight with each other in the skies over the pond on most days is not what I really want to see. Beautiful birds is an understatement. Majestic Would be a better description. But Dam it, They need to leave my big fish alone.

Tracy, we've had an Osprey hanging around here. We usually only see them 2-3 times a year. He got a fish or 2, and as far as i can tell, he's gone now.

No Bald Eagles so far this year, and yep, they are majestic.

Tracy
We have a Osprey that lives in the area and fishes here , I don’t mind a few BG or bass getting taken, harmless in the big scheme.

After the storm I saw a lone cormorant at the pond. We already have three pairs of wood ducks (they've discovered fish food), four geese, two bald eagles, and a great blue heron. Eagles and wood ducks are welcome, others not so much.

Water very murky by our standards, viz maybe 18 inches. Some runoff plus about 50 lb of fertilizer. Will fertilize again when it clears, need a good bloom for our TFS. One encouraging sign: large numbers of fish from teeny on up in shallows. Numerous bait balls that can be seen only in sunlight.

About half the dogwood and red bud trees planted on our island have been destroyed by a beaver. They were surrounded by metal wire, but anything less than 2 feet above the ground wasn't enough to keep the rodent away.

Al, like you and Pat, I've had an Osprey living at the pond for at least the past 8 to 12 months. It is possible that the Bald Eagle has run it off but if it did it's only been recently if he has left at all. The Eagle has been around for a couple of years now along with the Osprey. I'm getting used to feeding the birds lol. A lot of my culling is done by birds and otters over the past few years.

Pic Test

Sorry FIREISOT i'm not able to see it.

Neither can I. I'm shooting darts at the pic issue.

Finding the cause of the errors is kinda like taking a multiple choice test. Eliminate the answers that you know are wrong, then the odds go up that you'll get the correct answer. I'm trying to eliminate answers right now. Some member's pics are showing up, but they have a different website folder structure than the ones that don't. Why that happens is the answer I'm looking for.

I don't have, or want, access to the source files, but I did enterprise level application development for years. There's always a reason a database driven website fails, and if I can narrow that down, then maybe the programmers can target the reason.

If it helps, i can post the exact error message i get when I try to upload a picture. It uploads the 'shell' and it shows a placeholder, but the 'guts' of the picture is missing.
It doesn't help if I change format to .png vs .jpg or .jpeg
3rd party hosted pictures work.

We probably should stop the attachment manager completely if possible since all the pictures being uploaded since this is broken may never get fixed since the actual pixel data seems to be missing.

CC, please post the error message. Thanks

I've tried the png, and both the jpg's. I've also tried eliminating reserved characters. Those can cause breaks also, but don't in this case.



EDIT: Getting there with help from Guppy1

test picture failed
It seems to think that it doesn't recognize the embedded data of the uploaded JPEG as a true JPEG due to some error. Strange is on the attachment upload window even after the error you can see the thumbnail in the bottom of the window so it recognizes the picture in the upload pane even after the error. But then when the forum goes to pull up that picture it opens a new tab and the opened tab is blank.

Here is the error:


Fatal error: imagecreatefromjpeg(): gd-jpeg:
JPEG library reports unrecoverable error: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x89 0x50 in /var/www/vhosts/pondboss.com/httpdocs/forums/libs/image.inc.php on line 36

Thanks, CC. That's the same error I'm getting, so I'll pass it on.

Test - not working.


Thttp://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=filemanager&g=0&post_id=519448&id=a8b9e04f9014b468819719580fb930d8&f=37&init=1EST

Thanks for trying guys. It's all over my head when it comes the teck stuff. I am considered to be an expert when it comes to my field but when it comes to anything more than typing here I'm lost for the most part. Why not use RAH's method of posting pics ? Is that not working now?

As far as the pond, will, I made a walk around and saw 5 male lmb guarding nest. And with the cool nights we have been having this past week or so I did not see many cnbg in the shallows or anything else other than those male lmb. If the pond follows what I have seen before I will see males guarding nest for the next 4 weeks or so with males guarding leaving and then new males coming in for a second round of spawning and males guarding their nest.

I have not been able to id the ducks that use the owl house.They do not use my pond and fly in at sunset. Sometimes they land in trees until I leave other times one goes into the house. They whistle and last year I saw black bellied whistling ducks but these have a dark back with light belly.
I'm thinking about removing the water snakes so they don't eat the baby ducks that will arrive soon.

Yesterday I restocked fatheads and 3 to 4 inch bluegills.

It was nice to get away from the big city, do a little "social distancing" in the county, and catch a few fish from a pond on a near perfect weather day that was predicted as a rainy day. Predictions!

Nice fish Zep hope one day my crappie will be that beautiful

Thanks Pat. She caught it on an H&H. Do you know by looking at it if that is a hybrid crappie? The guy we bought the place from put a few regular crappie in, so I wasn't sure if it was a hybrid I stocked or one of his?

I cant help ya on ur question but those all have some really nice color. Looks like a good day of relaxation.

Zep, nice fish. I think the H&H spinner bait is probably the best pond bait ever made. A great go to bait. I have a question or two. Is the Hybred brim a res/bg or a green sunfish/res blend? I was not aware u had green sunfish and did not know you had cp either. All those fish look to be really healthy. And how many years have the both strains of cp been in the pond? Have they ever spawned?

Oop's, I do seem to remember something about getting your HCP from Todd?