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Originally Posted by sbeau66  one time the heron was sleeping at the side of the pond at night, its not a sight i look forward to, i wouldn't mind if it took the fish to eat but it just fishes the out and stabs them, or leaves em on the grass to die, thats not fair on the fish, its welcome to take some for food but it took out a really pregnant one last week and it died on the grass, if it had benn allowed to spawn the fish would have provided babies and therefore more smaller fish for the heron, so i think they must be stupid too!  |
The first point I would like to make is herons almost always sleep in tree's so its likely it was hunting not roosting. Secondly its highly unlikely that it would leave fish to die, herons suffer from cold winters and need all of the help they can get there is no chance they would do this. Have you got cats? Also a third point your fish was not pregnant pond fish do not breed at this time of year so if it was bloated it was either ill or had a parasite, most likely the reason it had been caught.