Make way for hawklings!

[daphnep]

They returned the third nestling to the nest.

The most incredible photo is here:
http://www2.fi.edu/images/hawkjun82.jpg

...showing the wildlife rehab guy, holding her, just inside the window before placing her back on the ledge (where she hopped back over to the nest, where I

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[lawbabeak]

"I will claw your eyes out!"

You know, while bettas can survive living in tiny bowls, they actually like to have room to swim around (and look very pretty doing so). Did you get it a biggish bowl?

[daphnep]

A bowl? Pshaw, we run a high-class institution. Monsieur Henri gets an entire tank, with an whole acquatic ecosystem. Right now he is playing a sort of sport with a bobbling...thing...and blowing a bubble nest along one edge.

(He speaks French, mon poisson. He is also an acrobat.)

I tried to take pictures a few days ago with my macro lens, inspired by the beautiful ones haleyluna does of bettas...but he gets blurry every time.

[lawbabeak]

Aren't they just GORGEOUS when they have room? Such grace! Such elan! Of >course< he speaks French!

[daphnep]

He really is! He totally changed color since I got him, too. When I picked him out in his little petstore cup, he just looked dark blue.

Now he says: "I am NOT bleu. I am full uff ze rrred, and ze violet, and ze silver! Let me show you my fearsome couleurs! See? I vill svim sideways, just so zat you can see me!!!"

And then he does.

I have to do a post about him, soon. Henri is worth an lj post all his own.

[molinaslim]

The neat thing about that photo, aside from the huge factor of the raptor, is the little falconry hood on the window sill. It turns the image into a sort of romantically medieval tale of rescue.

[daphnep]

Yeah...hawks are sort of medieval by nature, now that you mention it.

[portia]

Funny! One of the first things I noticed (after the hawk, of course) was the familiar shit-spattered window and the web cam!