Pink Flamingo sighting!

[jobob]

OK, all ye Sayers of Nay, here he is !

Here's the overlook to what we now call Flamingo Cove in Coyote Hills Park, where Seymour likes to hang out.



I clambered down the slope to the shoreline, but even so he was a bit of a ways out. I did the best I could with my little 3x zoom set to the highest resolution, but these pics still have a bit of a Loch Ness Monster quality to them. But still, there be no mistakin'

So there you have 'em.

I wonder if he might have escaped from the same place as the African crane ?

[snapdragen]

Yep. That's a flamingo alright. I shall no longer think you nutz ...well, not totaly nutz, just a little bit nutz

[Trekhawk]

Cool shots Jo!!

Poor Seymour he must be wondering why the rest of the flock is short and white.

[snapdragen]

He kinda reminds me of a parakeet (budgie for you aussie gals) I saw. Obviously an escapee, he was hanging out with a flock of sparrows. One bright green little bird amongst all the brown sparrows.

[jobob]

Cool shots Jo!!

Poor Seymour he must be wondering why the rest of the flock is short and white.

He's almost always by himself. I guess no-one else out there speaks flamingo. Poor guy.

There are also a lot of egrets and pelicans out there, so if you're not really expecting to see him, it's easy to mistake him for one of those.

[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.