Tharulya's Diaries

  Life of a Fighter fish                                        Life for a baby Fighter fish (Betta Splendens is the scientific name) starts from a small egg, spawned out of the female Fighter fish. The male Fighter fish first makes a bubble nest under a leaf. He spends all day making it.  male with his bubble nest (this is actually a photo of a male with babies hanging in the bubble nest). The next day he leads the female under his bubble nest. then he and she spawns. The male curls around the female tightly to expel her eggs out.   spawning Small, white colour eggs come out. Then the male picks up the falling eggs in his mouth. Then he coats them with saliva and attaches them in the bubble nest. The female spends about 1 minute on the surface of the water, looking like she is dead. Then she starts to move. She goes to help the male pick up the eggs. But she c...

  This is the painting I did day-before-yesterday (October 4 2021). This is the grey heron we saw in October 03 2021 when we went to the Pepilyana marsh in the evening. This grey heron is popping its head out of the paddy and weeds in the paddy field. Done with colour pencils.   I did this painting today (October 6 2021). This is my male fighter fish, who I named Blue. I used two different photos to paint this. One photo of Blue, and one photo of my aquarium for the background. Blue is staying inside the log of my fish tank. I have painted Blue’s father, Redgem, in a different painting too. Following is that painting. In Blue’s painting, I painted the inside of the log and the tree on the edge of the painting with watercolours. I did the outer bit of the log with pastel. And Blue with colour pencils.    

  Four paintings I did in September,2021. The first one is two egg-laying (called spawning) Common Clownfish (Amphiprion Ocellaris). They both are spawning in a cave under their home sea anemone. The female tends the eggs. And the male waits in the background. This painting is done with colour pencils. The next painting is a coconut tree in the beach.    this is done with pastel. The next painting is an Adult Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer) feeding its chicks.   The adults have built the nest in a garden full of trees. This painting is done with colour pencils too. The last painting is a stamp of a White-faced Starling (Sturnus Senex). I did this painting in September too. This one too is done with colour pencils. I did one today (October 3 2021) too. following is that painting. It is a male Orange Migrant butterfly (Catopsilia Scylla) on a small plant. This butterfly belongs to the family Pieridae. This one is done with colour pencil...

  Today’s (October 2 2021) evening was full of animals. They were mostly birds. At about maybe 4. 45, birds flew and had sang everywhere. Birds such as Tailor Birds, Red Vented Bulbuls, Black Robins, Rose-ringed Parakeets, Purple Rumped Sunbirds, Spotted Doves, Blue Tailed Bee-eaters, White-Bellied Drongos, Mynas, Yellow Billed Babblers, a Sri Lanka Lesser Flameback and a Green Imperial Pigeon was there.   White-bellied Drongo         Purple- rumped Sunbird, Male Tailo r Bird Purple-rumped Sunbird, Female   Green Imperial Pigeon Blue Tailed Bee-eater Lesser Sri Lanka Flameback the Sri Lanka Lesser Flameback, two Spotted Doves and the Blue Tailed bee-eater are all seen here. Yellow Billed Babblers Green Imperial Pigeon     Red Vented Bulbul  Common Mynas Black Robin   And a Common Squirrel.   I took all these photos. hope you enjoy it.