I had to look closely because its hue wasn’t as pink as I thought it would be. But I definitely saw a flamingo on the beach yesterday. It was hanging out with ten egrets (I counted them), feeding in a tidal lake that appeared last year and has grown bigger since then. The birds seemed on good terms with each other.

The egrets raised their elegant heads, struck a perfect profile shot, as the flamingo tried to blend in. I’m not really pink, he seemed to be saying. I’m just one of the gang.

As I mentioned in another beach posting, mockingbirds are actually the state birds of Florida, though flamingos are more closely identified with the state.

I wish I’d been able to snap a shot of the flamingo itself, but I often walk the beach without a phone or camera. I’ll have to content myself with this lone egret I spied later in the day. He’s obviously a bird on a mission. Perhaps he’s looking for another flamingo.