Water Gardening: floating gator seems to keep birds/critters away, 1 by tootsie

tootsie wrote:
Hi Paulabyers,
I just saw your post!! I found a large gator head made out of plastic I think it was $75.00, then lost the link! I then went to the dollar store and bought several green blow up gators, I have one in the pond I think I saw the resident muskrat sneer as it swam by it, LOL Where oh where did you purchase your gator and how much was it?? I have had so many darn blue and the white herons at my pond :( And the darn cormorants have visited it too!! I was out at the pond the other day, re-potting some of the pondlilies, I turned around and there was a blue heron, just walking in the shallow part of the pond!! I turned around and yelled and threw the shoval at it, FINALLY IT FLEW AWAY!! My pond is a big one, with a clay bottom, deepest is 12 ft. Water has receded now somewhat, and the dock fell over :( Any information about buying those gators would really be appreciated :)
Thank You,
tootsie
By the way, very nice pond :) Here is a pic of my pond w/ gator