Aquascape 81030 Blue Heron Bird Decoy for Pond, Waterfall, Landscape, and Garden Features

Look good, and are being used successfully!

Big beautiful bird, about 2', very well detailed. Gave it a shot of clear coat to make the finish last. Drilled a hole in the base for a 1' tent spike so it is well secured. Painted the base brown to show off the well detailed feet as well. Covered them in a light coating of mulch. We have blue herons flying in the ravine behind us. So glad we bought this, great addition to the back garden, and it is big enough we can see it from the deck.

The product is good quality and it is an attractive decoy for our pond.

We were surprised at how nice this decoy is. And so far, it's working at keeping the heron out of our pond. He came over a couple days ago. This isn't a great picture because hummingbird feeder is covering the real heron in the background a little bit, but you can see heron decoy beside pond and the real one never did come any closer to the pond or the decoy. One tip, my husband moves the decoy to different areas around pond so that the real bird thinks the decoy is alive. So maybe that's why it's working for us. I hope it continues to scare the real heron away.

Mr. Decoy looks good but is about a foot smaller than the real bird, and as far as I can tell it’s working for scaring away the real bird. I have a small pond in my front yard that used to have 13 gold fish till a great big blue Herron started eating them! Herron got 4 all total. So after it got fish twice, 5 months apart I found this decoy and got one and was able to take the net corner off my pond ( the net cover is ugly and makes it difficult to see and feed fish) . Mr. Decoy worked pretty well for the Herron, I think, but something else got into pond and I don’t think it was the Herron because this time the heavy rocks over the pump were knocked off and pump tubing was knocked loose and pots with Lillie’s were knocked over and Lillie’s broken up. I’m thinking raccoon this time, I live across the street from the Willamette river in Oregon. So now I’ve ordered a motion activated ultrasonic frequency repeller. We’ll see if that works. Hopefully between Mr. Decoy and ultrasonic repeller I’ll be able to keep my last 6 fish.