{"id":2671,"date":"2019-03-27T13:09:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T13:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2019-03-27T13:09:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T13:09:18","slug":"planning-a-new-garden-pond-then-get-your-heron-in-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/planning-a-new-garden-pond-then-get-your-heron-in-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning a new garden pond then get your Heron in early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/s-l1600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2672\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/s-l1600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you are planning to build a new garden pond with some fish then your first move should be to establish a statue of a heron ideally even before you start digging the pond. A Heron can clean out your pond of fish within a matter of hours but they are very territorial and will not normally intrude on other herons patch so by adding a statue of a heron before you add the fish serves as a mark that your pond is taken already by an existing heron.<br \/>\nIf you have already suffered an attack by a heron on your fish it&#8217;s often too late to add a heron statue to discourage\u00a0further attacks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are planning to build a new garden pond with some fish then your first move should be to establish a statue of a heron ideally even before you start digging the pond.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}