Today we were back to our customary stunningly beautiful autumn weather in Cape Town, after a brief rainy spell. The pleasure of the sunshine is tempered by the chill of the sea air here in Kommetjie, and it was particularly noticeable in the late afternoon when I went down to the Kom to take yet more photos of the flamingos. Can one ever have enough photos of flamingos? There were certainly plenty of fancy cameras and long lenses down there as I snapped away with my little 10x zoom Fuji and I'm sure their fingers were frozen to the shutter just like mine!
At one stage, a breakaway group of these elegantly awkward birds stalked out of the shallows on to the mud flats in their supercilious way, looking down their beaks at the lesser bird species pecking nearby, and a fortuitous angle of the light reflected from the windows over the road provided perfect lighting to highlight their delicate pink plumage.
The usual squabbling among the males resulted in lots of ruffled feathers and a very nice display of spreading wings showed just why the collective noun for these magnificent birds is 'flamboyance'!
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