A few months ago I stocked the one acre pond on my property with 205 5″ rainbow trout. Yesterday evening as I sat by the pond sipping a glass of merlot, I heard the distinctive rattle of a belted kingfisher as it flew the length of the pond and then perched in a tree on the far bank. I had more or less forgotten about it when suddenly it swooped into the pond with a tremendous splash, emerged with a trout in its powerful beal, and landed on a branch directly over my head. The trout was only slightly smaller than the bird. The kingfisher bashed the trout’s head on the branch a couple of times to knock it unconscious and then flew away. So I guess now I have 204 trout.
