A woman in Vancouver found a fish in her backyard. It had fallen out of a tree. Really.
Cindy Wilkinson got home on Monday to find a voice message from her friend Jan Bailey."She said, 'The strangest thing just happened. A fish just fell out of our cedar tree on to the ground.'" Bailey, who lives near Third Street and St. David's Avenue, had seen the fish make a dive worthy of an Olympian in her backyard. Her husband went out to investigate, and found the piscine drop-in covered in cedar needles but - incredibly - still alive.
It was an unusual looking fish, reddy orange and about 25 centimetres long. Bailey hauled out an old aquarium, filled it with water and put the fish inside. Then she called Wilkinson, who promptly called Lynda Taylor, another friend who knows her fish and has a big koi pond.
"I said, 'There's a fish that just fell out of a tree,'" said Bailey.
The women did their research and determined that the fish, now named "Lucky," is a Midas cichlid, and was most likely carried off by a heron or other large bird, then dropped alive into the tree. They would like to reunite the fish with its original owner. Link -via Arbroath
(Image credit: Kevin Hill, North Shore News)