Too many birds! Help please.

[Ducdoc]

Get a collie My dog loves chasing birds. Drives him nuts when he sees one. He also chases coyotes and foxes away.

 

[Dave Cee]

"Will work for food."

 

[Storm]

You could try and get something like a 'scarecrow' motion sensor sprinkler and place them around your pond. With motion, a jet of water will shoot and may scare them away.

I tried:
- Motion sprinklers
- Fake Owl
- Fake Heron

Of the above, the fake heron was probably the best (heron's fight so the more nervous one's will keep away for a while.... just move your fake heron around every day or so), but even it didn't scare the real heron's away for long.... and your pond is so big, another heron would just go to the other side).

Netting was the only way to stop the heron's for me, but yours is too big for that. Get fish in there that are too big to be swallowed, and hope a Pelican doesn't find you

 

[Storm]

Love your turtles btw...

 

[TimL94]

I think it will be a futile effort unfortunately, the only thing I've ever done is put lots of nylon rope between trees to ruin flight paths, but my pond is not as big and trees already constrict most approaches to my pond. Yours is very open and the amount of net and cable/rope that would be needed to make it unpleasant for birds to try fly and land on/near will look worse than having the birds :/

 

[addy1]

If it was my pond I would just love all the wild life, keep only cheap fish in it and just enjoy the nature show.

 

[Sirvince]

Hello everyone, sorry I was MIA. I had to go out of state for work. Anyway I'm down to two ducks, two red tail hawks (no longer eating fish but ground squirrels now) one black heron (now named Dick) see pic. When he can't eat my fish, he brakes things around my house. In the pic he destroyed Jhony's canopy. I've lost 10 fish, over 2 feet long to him. However I have worked out that an rc speed boat works really well to drive everything except the fish and turtles off. I did try the fake heron, dick killed it within a day. He took the head off.

 

[Sirvince]

Love your turtles btw...

I'll send you as many as you would like. Just pick them out.

 

[TimL94]

Did the heron eat some of the ducks too?

 

[Sirvince]

Did the heron eat some of the ducks too?

No, the ducks started to mate and they are not nice to one another. So the two that are left fight off the ones the boat did not scare away.

 

[Sirvince]

If it was my pond I would just love all the wild life, keep only cheap fish in it and just enjoy the nature show.

I'm going to have to do that sadly. I was trying to keep my late father in law's fish alive. However, I'm also not going to kill the wildlife just for living.