Thread: Half of my duck pond stolen

Nothing to see here really, seems the slight dehydration problem in the Waikato isn't helping the pond. On the upside, there decoys that went missing last year have turned up

Smaller pond should make for easy pickings....Every bird that comes in will be in range
Hope you guys get some rain up there soon

Yes those submarine decoys really bring em in
If you plant some honeysuckle and flax around your Mai Mai you won’t have to cut so much tea tree.
We did it to ours back home and in two years you could not even see it. Worked a treat and looks so much more natural.

expandite foam...poke a hole in the bum of deke and pull the trigger.....and tell them water swatting mates to stop holeing your good decoys LOL.

don't worry huey loves duck huters even waikato ones.

Well - we're not the only ones then... Not a drop in the two of ours, you can almost graize then now...Massive cracking and dry as! Nothing in the stream either which is worrying...

CD

Did Huey return any of it today, we got over 50mm so far.

we face this same thing every year with little hydro/irrigation dam...some years we sit in the trees and have a ball,other years we did holes in the mud and try to hide in the open...funny thing is we always seem to end up with similar number of birds for weekend....I would much ,much rather sit in the trees...HUEY can send us 40 days n 40 nights of light drizzly rain if he so desires....the grass is growing nicely and most cockies are semi happy.

Least you have water, Mine is in the swamp at Mercer and you can walk around in it in your slippers without getting muddy feet.

This is us now
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Just a bit blooody damp

Originally Posted by tetawa

Did Huey return any of it today, we got over 50mm so far.

About 16mm... something but no where near enough

Originally Posted by Sideshow

If you plant some honeysuckle and flax around your Mai Mai you won’t have to cut so much tea tree.
We did it to ours back home and in two years you could not even see it. Worked a treat and looks so much more natural.

The planting is an on going project.... have a lot of other areas to plant also. The front posts of that maimai are in the water when the pond fills up

Problem with flax is it is so noisy.

Originally Posted by feratox

The planting is an on going project.... have a lot of other areas to plant also. The front posts of that maimai are in the water when the pond fills up

Good to hear.
You probably already know this but maybe someone doesn’t, also it’s good to show that we are conservationists at hart.
So planting around your ponds is a good way of showing that we are increasing the habitat for 365 days of the year not just the months of duck shooting.
Flax is easy to plant and will survive in the water. If you get a big plant you just divide it at the base with the individual palms, then cut the leaves off on an angle around a foot long. Just push a spade in lean the spade forward on the handle and put the plant in behind the blade before pulling the blade out. With in two years you have a nice cover. Honeysuckle is also very easy just dig up a little root and plant in a reasonable dry area usually on one of the corner posts. Back or front it won’t take long. Then you just cut it back as you see fit.
On our pond we had the Maimai in the middle of the pond. So we planted two avenues of flax with enough room for vehicle access. But we could then get into the Maimai at dawn without the ducks on the pond spooking.
Here’s a pick. Just a few years back the Maimai is behind the flax.

For planting there’s no time like now to have a look so that next spring you have a good idea what you want. The above two ideas are very cheap ways of giving you good cover that will last years and save on the cutting of tea tree. Saves you the Labour and stops undue disturbance of the pond at the start of the season.
Good luck with the coming season guys. Hope you get some rain soon.

For some reason that photo is familiar. Probably just a mind fold but yup still familiar just the same.