{"id":30,"date":"2010-12-17T19:31:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T19:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/?p=30"},"modified":"2010-12-18T21:20:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T21:20:17","slug":"the-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/2010\/12\/the-heron\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Heron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Heron.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Heron\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34\" \/><\/a>The heron keeps coming back to my pond, looking for more fish. He even got my &#8220;Lucky Fish&#8221; who survived his prior attacks and several moves and water changes. It appears my heron is not afraid of the floating alligator head. <\/p>\n<p>I thought about having a sign made &#8220;Blue Heron Cafe &#8211; Closed&#8221;.  With the new raised pond design I guess I will have to build some sort of fencing. I may try to mimic a Japanese bridge railing. <\/p>\n<p>Other deterrents do not seem to have much effect either. I have heard\/read of poor results from others with fake herons, water sprays, and the bamboo noise makers can not keep a determined heron away. There is one contraption that spins a bamboo pole in a circle around your pond, but I don&#8217;t think I want to go that route. I may try fine netting too once I have fish. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heron keeps coming back to my pond, looking for more fish. He even got my &#8220;Lucky Fish&#8221; who survived his prior attacks and several moves and water changes. It appears my heron is not afraid of the floating alligator &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/2010\/12\/the-heron\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-predators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}