I have a beautiful Koi pond in my backyard. Not a huge pond, just an irregular shaped pond about 10'X6'. I have about 15 fish in my pond. The smallest of which is maybe 4" long and the biggest is about 6 inches. I have beautiful plants in and around the pond, and there is a wooden deck next to it. The fountain makes that beautiful falling water sound so that it is very relaxing to sit on the deck, hear the water and watch the fish. Right now, during winter there is very little vegetation in the pond so that the fish are very exposed. It's kinda cool because my den has a window seat that looks out on the pond, the kitchen has a window as well so you can see the pond from different angles in the house. During the winter the water is crystal clear and the fish are never more visible.
Saturday morning while I was making coffee (decaf) I looked out my kitchen window and there standing in the middle of my pond was a great blue heron. I was struck by the beauty and majesty of this rare visit from nature. I called to my husband in the next room, "Honey come see this, this is so cool. Theres a blue heron in the pond." As my husband comes to look out the window he say's "I hope it's not eating our fish." Those words were no more out of his mouth when my heart sunk. At that moment I just knew tragedy had befallen my lovely fish.
As soon as the bird saw us moving behind the window, it flew away. We went outside to survey the damage. My worst fears confirmed, no fish in the pond! I didn't realize how attached I was to those fish. I cried and cried.
My husband and I bought our house about 3 years ago. I didn't know anything at all about ponds, or koi, let alone how to care for them. It was so beautiful, I learned quickly. Over the last three years we have lost about 5 to 7 fish due to my ineptitude, cats or just poor health. To see the pond empty, is just heartbreaking. All the time and energy spent on it. Thinking how the poor things were like the cliche "shooting fish in a barrel" there was nothing they could do. They were friendly little fish too, they would always swim up to greet you, expecting fish food. At bedtime my DS would always climb up on the window seat, look out the window and say, "night night fishies" ****, I'm crying again. Stupid Lupron, Stupid Bird, Stupid fish! This just ... sucks!
Thank you for letting me spill my sad story,
trina
That is so sad!! I would have cried too, so don't feel bad about that (and I haven't stated Lupron yet 
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