Pink Flamingo sighting!

[SadieKate]

Sorry. There are a ton of peacocks that have gone feral around Pardhesa's Store (where we stopped to remove arm warmers near the end). I'll try to find some for you next time.

[snapdragen]

Squashed or still strutting?

[yellow]

I just can't imagine what a squashed one looks like. Live...yeah, whatever. But SQUASHED??? Those birds are huge!

[Trekhawk]

I just can't imagine what a squashed one looks like. Live...yeah, whatever. But SQUASHED??? Those birds are huge!

LOL - yep I guess it had been hit by a car. Imagine the poor driver, not the sort of thing you expect to hit.

[liberty]

Have you guys heard of the Pink Flamingo Fundraiser? Ten years ago I was working at a church who did this fundraiser. Here's the deal: The youth group was trying to raise money for something. They gave the congregation a chance to buy Pink Flamingo Insurance, and after the cut-off date all people who hadn't purchased the insurance would face the risk of a plastic pink flamingo showing up on their front lawn. The flamingo could not be removed until a fee/bribe had been paid. They made a ton off this! Helps if people are highly sensitive to having the perfect yard. When I saw the title for this thread, I thought for sure someone was bringing the Pink Flamingo Insurance to TE...

[Geonz]

I read in a link from somebody's blog today that a major manufacturer of pink flamingo lawn ornaments has stopped making them and is shutting down the business. It was a US company; and here I assumed they were Chinese sweatshop specials!!! (Somehow, I just don't think there will ever be a shortage, and I just can't quite see them becoming collector's items. Who knows, though?)
When I googled "pink flamingo" and clicked "news" ... it seems to be a well-covered story...

[chickwhorips]

bummer. now where am i going to get the pink flamingos to put all over a co-workers lawn?

[JLD]

Wow! Lucky for you for the siting! We had a stray pink flamingo here a few years back. The story was he was disoriented, having come Way too north, when he should have gone south. I didn't get a chance to go and see, but all the birders around here, with cars, lined up on the road, to get a better look. ..............I DID see my First wild turkey two weeks ago, on a planning car trip, west of Ottawa. That was pretty neat. But a flamingo--that would have been Way neater!

[jobob]

I saw Seymour again today on my early morning ride. Now that I know it's him I can pick out the little pinkish blob on the far side of the cove, which is his early am hangout place.

But a flamingo in Canada, that's really something !

[Trekhawk]

I havent seen anything as exciting as a Flamingo but on one of my rides this week out on a country road I cycled past 100 to 150 Canadian Geese.They were hanging around a farmers pond. It was so cool to see them and hear all the honking. A local told me they come to that farm every year.