{"id":4397,"date":"2015-03-21T18:11:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T18:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2015-03-21T18:13:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T18:13:16","slug":"heron-fishing-in-a-garden-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4397","title":{"rendered":"Heron fishing in a garden pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We discovered that the fish in our garden pond were disappearing. We had, on occasion, seen a heron lurking near the pond but thought that a simple string barrier would stop it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/w15_100006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4399\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/w15_100006-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"hreon approachin pond\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/w15_100006-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/w15_100006-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/w15_100006-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/w15_100006.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But we were wrong&#8230; This photo shows the heron approaching the pond from the left &#8211; it is looking for the place where it squeezes under the string.<\/p>\n<p>This was taken early (from 5:47) by my cheap wildlife camera. Although the sky was lightening, it was still dark enough for the camera to be in infra-red night-time mode.<\/p>\n<p>This next photo, from later in the sequence, shows the heron in the pond looking for fish to eat:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/w15_100084.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/w15_100084-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"Heron in the pond looking for a meal\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/w15_100084-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/w15_100084-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/w15_100084-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/w15_100084.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In all, the sequence lasted about 14 minutes with photos being taken at the rate of about 1 every 6 seconds.\u00a0 I have assembled the 147 images into a short time-lapse video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/122841976?portrait=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/122841976\">heron fishing in garden pond<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user30828666\">Paul L.G. Morris<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We discovered that the fish in our garden pond were disappearing. We had, on occasion, seen a heron lurking near the pond but thought that a simple string barrier would stop it. But we were wrong&#8230; This photo shows the heron approaching the pond from the left &#8211; it is looking for the place where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4397\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heron fishing in a garden pond&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,79,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-time-lapse","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4397"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4405,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions\/4405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}