Live At The Cleveland Zoo-Flamingos

Since I brought you colorful birds from the zoo yesterday, I figured I'd bring you more colorful birds from the zoo today. This time its some bright pink flamingos. They've actually got two different species of flamingos at the Cleveland Zoo, and these were the more colorful of the two. (I think these are the Chilean flamingos, but I'm not sure. I need to get in the habit of shooting the signs identifying what it is I'm trying to take a picture of.) You have to feed these guys a special diet to get that color, but whatever their keepers are doing must be working.

Showbirds Of Vegas

There are still plenty of shots I want to bring you from my Vegas trip, I just keep running out of hours in the day. When I first started telling folks I was going to Vegas, one sharp wit asked why, since they didn't have any birds out there for me to shoot. Well, the joke's on her, because I did find a couple of birds to shoot. The fellow above is some sort of crane whose name escapes me, and the guy below is a flamingo. Where did I find these feathered friends? Why at The Flamingo, of course. They had a small aviary out by the pool with plenty of ducks and ibis and, of course, flamingos. You could also get your picture taken with a large number of colorful parrots. I felt like I was back in Florida for a few minutes.