Dan, my neighbor has a virgin 1/5, maybe 1/6 acre pond that we've been developing for 9 months or so. We've put in 85 mature bluegill to date and 20 lbs of fatheads. The bluegill stocking started in August of 2021, so there were mature bluegill in the pond over this previous winter. You can see them feeding.

Not a single nest seen. In my other two ponds, one of which is less than a quarter mile away, there are moon craters everywhere with a male on the nest.

So, it's all different from place to place. Keep watching. This neighbor's pond is about to be bursting with fatheads of numerous birthdates. Waiting to see if I can ID anything as a bluegill frye.

Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."