Was out in the sunroom around 5pm getting ready to feed the cats and saw something big swoop in close to the door and land on the closed table umbrella on the patio. Low and behold it was a Barred Owl which I've never seen in a surburban area (although we live a couple miles from where the Missosuri and Mississippi rivers converge). Thing is I know they can and will hunt fish. We have a big 3 foot deep pond that is build right up to the sunroom wall which houses the koi. Then back in the yard further is a stream that flows into a smaller 20" deep pond. In that pond there are a small number of 6 year old orando-long finned comet crosses we accidently bred. That owl would sit in one of the small trees or on something where it could see into the pond and kept flying down right to the pond and standing there for 10-15 minutes at a time. I finally had to feed the dogs and let them out which made it fly away. BUT I wonder if its going to come back and hunt tonight!?! I hope not! We did put some netting over the shallow part of the big front pond but the little pond is open (although it's saving grace may be the leaves providing cover). So as I sit and type I wonder if we have a hunter in our yard enjoying a fish dinner.