I made a field trip today to a local garden that keeps a lovely fish pond. I hope you will enjoy this little side trip away from the Hawks.
A putto riding a fish at the edge of the pool:
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Koi – fancy goldfish – are gorgeous; and those look very well taken care of. Good thing no ospreys around; though they’d hardly be a morsel for them. Presume fish pond is protected from NYC rats and avain predators? Looked quite relaxing; glad you had a change of pace.
Thanks also for the baby pictures of the WSQ hawklets – totally adorable! Much appreciate your photo skills and commentary…no pictures of eponymous Roger Paw himself?
You present an interesting question; the little pool is out in the open (although it does have a low stone wall around it) but if they wanted to, I suppose a rat could try to swim across but it’d be out of their way if they were going from point A to point B. Yes, luckily Ospreys are more interested in the river fishies. You can see Roger if you click on this link here. 🙂
Two buildings down the block from us run by the same landlords have goldfish in ponds inside a gated garden! They get huge! They even stayed over the winter and I don’t think they had to take them in because it never froze over…I’ll see if I can get some pix for you. Rena
I was told by one of the garden staff that the gold fish stay there year-round. He said the top level freezes and the fish go into a hibernation mode. Fascinating!
Roger_Paw, years ago I had friends in Massachusetts who had a pond in their backyard with many large gold fish. The pond froze over every winter, and every spring the fish began swimming around as usual. The winters in Massachusetts are so much colder than in New York, so I think that has to be the test case for whether or not gold fish can survive freezing temperatures. Carlene
That makes sense! Yes, I’d think a Massachusetts winter would be a perfect test case.