Some Small Pond Good News

I got a good luck at the small pond residents and have some good news to report. I was able to find 5 of the larger Goldfish (about 3 inch) but the larger ones including the one with the sore on his tail are gone. I suspect they were dinner for the Great Blue Heron. But the giant tadpoles are still there - here is a mass of at least 7 enjoying the afternoon sun.
The other project this afternoon was to add some baby fish to the small pond. I caught 30 of them in one of our nursery buckets. The nursery buckets are 20 gallon buckets where we put algae that we remove from the large pond. Most of the time it contains some eggs so we check several week later for babies. These babies are 1/2 to 3/4 inch long but very skinny as you can see. With luck some will survive to add to the small pond population.