Customer Reviews

Laguna Blue Heron

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This decoy does not keep living great blue herons from hunting your ponds. But it's nicer than pink flamingos as yard art. I ended up putting mesh covers over all my ponds to protect my shubunkins and koi.

I have two ponds that have been desimated by blue heron cranes. My frog population is gone and fish greatly effected. I purchased a blue heron scarer. It really looks good, along with my duck decoys, however, as a deterant to cranes, phooey.

The blue herons attempt to court my decoy. They walk all around it, peck at it, and on one occasion, actually attempted to fight it. I don't regret my purchase, since I enjoy watching the theatrics around it, but it doesn't repel anything.

Very simply the Heron is still fishing my pond clean of hundreds of dollars worth of fish.

This decoy Heron was an affordable price and is pretty convincing. I have had my fish disappear from my pond within a couple days in the last couple years, but not this year. The feet/mounting could be better. Basically it's just two painted pvc pipes but I had a water plant in a bucket and jammed them in there. Not a bad piece for the money.

Wild herons view domestic water gardens and fish ponds as nicely stocked buffets. Don't let your fish be victims! Wild herons are very territorial, and the sight of the Laguna Blue Heron will convince them that your pond belongs to him and they will leave your fish alone. Be sure to move the Laguna Heron every so often, so the wild herons continue to think it's real, and don't position it too close to the edge of your pond and terrify your fish!

I've read various reviews of these heron decoys and thought I would go for the least expensive ones, as I wasn't convinced it would work. Well, it works just fine. Now mind you, I also have a net over the pond, an electric fence to keep the heron from walking in under the net which is at tree height, ( works for the racoons too ). I've watched a couple of herons reconnoitre the scene and make blustering gestures but it seems to be a matter of show. So far the koi have been spared.

The product is a light weight plastic moulding mounted on a plastic tube. It's realistic enough that for the first couple of weeks , I was constantly startled to see the heron back before realizing it was my friend. I found the tube fit over a heavier than standard bit of reinforcing rod, and "Henry" moves about the pond on this easy to move stake.

I bought because it was cheap but the wind has bent the pole it sits on & color is fading so you get what you pay for! Next Blue heron I buy will have TWO legs to sit on as they say these stay up in the wind better.This company DID ship fast !

Nice quality, nice colors. May need a little reinforcement as the bird just sits on the pole but it did not prove to be a problem for us.

these decoys made an excellent addition to the looks of our lawn.Thank you for the speedy service,and a wonderful product.

sincerely, Don Matthys

So far this has kept the real pest away from our koi. we'll see how it does during mating season which is coming up. would recommend this! it's amazing how real it looks, my dogs think so too.