Telepathy with a fish :p

After wrapping up at my mezah this morning I noticed a small fish in the puddle of water in the middle of the mezah. I held my empty paper coffee cup in my hand and decided to try to return him to the sea. And so.. I held the cup halfway under in the shallow water of the puddle and started talking to the fish (yeah, I'm crazy). And then the most miraculous thing happened and I think I am not going to tell anybody about it IRL because nobody will believe me anyway:

after several trials swimming towards the cup but ending up behind it or passing it underneath it - it swam directly into the paper cup! As if he knew what my intentions were. I still can't believe this happened.

Soon as I had him in the cup -in the same movement- I threw him into the sea...

Fishermen that saw me trying before I caught him in the cup laughed at me and joked. But they were left standing with their mouths open wide when they saw him swim into the cup.

Photos of
- A Mosherabbenu (lieveheersbeestje) - that came flying onto my arm 3(!!) times. Each time I blew him away - but he kept on coming back...
- Guppies (fish just out of the eggs) - I found it remarkable since the water was contaminated and there were practically no other fish around. I hope they'll survive...
- A Palestinian Sunbird hiding behind a Hibiscus...
- A snale I released back to where I found him after photographing him...
- A Wagtail Citreola I saw graciously hopping around in one of the gardens on the route...
- Fairytaletree (Kigelia) who was shedding his leaves while making great noise doing so (the falling leaves are very stiff and hard -but they smelled gorgeous- and that, together with the sudden wind rushes that happened while standing near him, is responsible for that noise).