Newly Hatched Flamingo

Newly Hatched Carribean Flamingo, also known as the American Flamingo, Phoenicopterus ruber, with mother looking on. The females have been patiently sitting on huge mud nests that they scraped together with their beaks. All that work finally paid off with a new crop of hatchlings!

Bad Hair Day?

Carribean Flamingo feeding. Let's say you're a flamingo but you're having a bad hair day. Maybe a bad feather day. Either way, you've got this rogue feather on top of your head that just won't come off. It's sticking up. All the other flamingos are keeping their distance. You've become flamingo anathema. Even the photographers are shunning you! What to do? No hands. Feet are too long to scratch up there? Sometimes you just have to grin and bear it. Kind of like that stock market, eh?

What, you say you need some Flamingo poetry? You say please? Oh, okay. Here it is. I call it, "The Lonely Flamingo."

Your feathers are all awry,

Nothing seems to work,

Your flock is getting snotty,

Your pals stay far away,

Fair weather flamingos,

Are here for just the day.