Dead Fish on the Pond

The Pond March 11, 2015

Time for another post about the draining of the Pond.  Here is a photo now showing many dead fish in what is left of the water.  All of the white blobs are fish.  Buzzards visited a few days ago but have abandoned the site.  They never ventured into the water.  The Great Blue Herons have pretty well abandoned also even though one did visit briefly this morning.  At one time, we had four here at the same time.  When one stood in the middle of the little pool of water, it seemed to be only a couple inches deep.  The area around the water is so soupy we can't yet walk to it without sinking deep into the muck.  There are now three deep paths down to the water which must have been made by large turtles.  They appear like railroad tracks since there are really two lines since the feet are separated so far on large turtles.  We have uncovered a couple dozen golf balls, a few empty bottles, an old broken metal pot, but nothing of any value.