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...

  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.