"cowabunga dude" wrote in message
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When I went out to get the mail a sandhill crane flew away from on top of
the storage building, overlooking the stock tank.

They've been around before and never been a problem. I like seeing them
around when they drink from the stock tank.

When I poured in some fish food I watched for the fish to swarm around and
eat, there wasn't any fish. There had been four large eight inch, two
large four inch, and the rest were around three inches, but skinny. There
were seventeen, now there are none.

I poked around with a stick, and still no fish.
Never before have fish been missing after I've seen sandhill cranes.

As you might be able to tell, I'm disappointed.

We always have a pair of sandhills living on/near our 10 acre property.
They often nest in our about two acre pond but I've never seen them forage
in/near it. They do eat critters, I've seen them dig out moles.

A neighbor built an ornamental pond, stocked it with koi. The koi started
disappearing, turned out to be a snake that was living in the rock work
around the pond. You have snakes? Raccoons?