Here is what I woke up to this morning

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I get up this morning and look out at the pond and this is what I see. He is about 3' tall when he stands straight. Watched him walk around the yard, stand on the fence and then he came to the pond and walked slowly around until he lowered his head and got a goldie probably about 4 to 5" long. The second pic is right before he got the goldie. He is probably coming around again because his normal eating holes are flooded with all the rain we have recieved in the last week. This is usually the only time I see them when it rains alot.
 

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koiguy1969

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yeah...why are you shooting with a camera instead of something that will atleast inflict alittle pain and scare it off?
 

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Ha Ha I just changed the words a bit to the tune of Big John.............just having some fun wasting my time on this rainy day :alieneyesa:


Big Bird
Big Bird

Every morning at the pond, you could see him arrive.
He stood 3 foot 3, weighed 25.
Kind of broad at the shoulders, broad at the hip.
And everybody knew you didn't give no lip to Big Bird.

Big Bird
Big Bird
Big Bad Bird
Big Bird

Nobody seemed to know where Bird called home
He just drifted into the pond and stayed all alone.
He didn't say much, kind of quiet and shy
And if you spoke at all, you'd just said hi to Big Bird.
Somebody said he came from New Orleans,
Where he got into a fight over an Egret Queen.
With a crash and a blow from a huge right foot,
he sent a Louisiana Bird to the promised land.

Big Bird
Big Bird
Big bad Bird
Big Bird

Then came the day at the bottom of the pond,
when a drift log cracked and fish started crying.
Minnows were praying, and hearts beat fast
and every fish thought they had breathed their last
cept' one huge Koi.
Through the water and the muck of this man made hell,
swam the giant of a Koi that the minnows knew well.
Koi grabbed a sagging tree branch and gave out with a groan,
and like a giant oak tree he faced off w/ Big Bird

Big Bird
Big Bird
Big Bad Bird
Big Bird

And with all of his strength, Koi gave a mighty shove.
Then a minnow yelled out, 'there's hope from above!'.
And 20 fish swam and hid from the fight
All of them down there peeking out to the light
And as gallons of water splashed out of that pond,
everybody knew it was the end of the line, for Big Bird.

Big Bird
Big Bird
Big Bad Bird
Big Bird

Now the pond was re-opened and not left a pit,
and they just placed a marble stand in front of it.
These few words are written on that stand,
'At the bottom of this pond, swims one Hell of a fish, Big Koi'

Big Koi
Big Koi
Big Bad Koi
Big Koi.
 
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Great Pictures.....don't think I would have waited so long before scaring it off. I had a pair at mine the other day, but I don't think they got any. We have lost our share of fish to heron. The 3 S's work too....Shoot, Shovel and Shut-up
Love the song....I have my grandkids trained to call them the Devil Bird.
 

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marla said:
Great Pictures.....don't think I would have waited so long before scaring it off. I had a pair at mine the other day, but I don't think they got any. We have lost our share of fish to heron. The 3 S's work too....Shoot, Shovel and Shut-up
Love the song....I have my grandkids trained to call them the Devil Bird.

I didn't scare him off right away because I can afford to lose a few goldies, they have really reproduced the last year and I am beginning to reach the point of too many fish for the size of my pond. My koi are all 18" big so there is no danger there.
 

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taherrmann4 said:
I didn't scare him off right away because I can afford to lose a few goldies, they have really reproduced the last year and I am beginning to reach the point of too many fish for the size of my pond. My koi are all 18" big so there is no danger there.

Big Koi..........Big Bad Koi :confused:
 

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If you think your Koi are safe from heron attacks at 18" I hope this shows you they are not. These two were killed within 15 minutes of each other, The white and Black one first 18" the Butterfly is the one he had in his mouth for his last supper before he didn't get anymore fish. He tried to fly off with this 20" 5# fish and he didn't make it very far!
 

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i've heard they will spear the larger ones and toss them on the lawn, just to get them out of the way of catching the smaller ones!!
 

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If it moves and they can catch it I believe they will. I think the two I posted pics of were to large to eat whole. It sure didn't stop it from trying. It kept coming back and trying to take the smaller of the two. So If anyone thinks because their koi are 18" long and safe from attack, NOT!
 

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