Pond activities seem to have normalized/stabilized this year. We still have a small (3gph) leak somewhere. No biggie, but another round of liner work to include the sump will be called for during the off-season. Fighting early season algae blooms, etc, nothing unusual.
We finally caught the goldfish thief, at least one of them. Turned out to be a Great Blue Heron. These birds are BIG, and pass through here every year on their annual migration. I had previously assigned the racoons as perpetrators, always among the usual suspects when these things happen. Jax has shown a couple the door rather abruptly in recent years, so don’t doubt they are involved. But we already lost three of the biggest goldfish to predators this year, so I re-stocked with some small and very small replacements, bringing the total population up to 15.
Here’s a few short vids:
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