Anna goes on a late afternoon hike with us. Dan picks her up to cross the meadow stream.
The Coopers Hawks have been active in the yard all winter. They get squirrels, and some birds, especially doves. I did not know they could get goldfish until one went missing. It's hard to miss a bright orange fish in a 8 foot by 10 foot pond. The two fish were about 7 and 8 inches long. Now there is just one fish, and a leftover minnow that is hard to see. But that is another story. So I looked up about Coopers Hawks, and Yes, other people have seen them take goldfish right out of small landscape ponds. (Photo of the Hawk is from the internet. We have 2 that perch above the pond in a tall pine tree.) We put the leaf net from our pool cover over the pond. There is still room to get in and out, but I figure the hawks want room to fly and not get tangled in this net. So far it has worked! The 3 new tiny fish are in the middle pond, since I could clean that out easily. They get a trellis cover, and hope they are just not worth getting. They also have some new plants to hide under. These fish seem small, but all our goldfish started out as "feeder fish" and over the years got very big. |
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