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Jun 21, 09 Comments Off
 Flamingos at the salt Ponds Good evening, I had such a wonderful flamingo encounter this morning at the Salt Ponds! I had the dogs with me so I had thought in advance that if I saw them I wouldn’t be able to get very close but I was wrong! All the flamingos had flown into one small area this morning creating a totally orange moving mass, it was out of this world! I guessed there must have been around 300 of them in every size and color and I even saw a few gray youngsters. I moved in very slowly with the dogs stopping every few yards and having them lay down along side me when I stopped. We did this for over two hours slowly creeping closer and closer until finally I was in perfect position. The shot you see here is part of a 6 or 7 pane panoramic, when stitched together it should be breathtaking!! Along with the flamingos there were the black winged stilts, great blue herons, snowy egrets, cattle egrets, common terns, royal terns and many many more, by far the most birds I have ever seen in one spot. I was shocked at how fast I used up my 8.0GB card this morning and stupid me I left the others at home, when will I ever learn?
Once home I washed the dogs and took the puppies out for their morning walks, they are keeping us very busy. We got home late last night so they didn’t have much exercise and we ended up paying for it at 4:30 this morning, once they are up they are up and so are we!
At 5:00 I took off with a friend on a super fast one lap of last weeks race course, if we could have done 3 laps that fast last Sunday we would have won the race! I see I need to go do some much needed trail cleaning after that race, lots and lots of loose rock! After the bike ride I grabbed the dogs and again took them out on a fun evening adventure to Saint Joris, these really are some of the luckiest dogs in Curacao, play, play, play!!
That’s about it I am very tired, I am sure I will be dreaming of flamingos all night! Barry
21-06-2009
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