Flamingo Friday: Pretty and Pink(ish)

As you may recall, a couple of months ago I commented on the fact that the younger of the two flamingos hatched this past summer was turning pink faster than her slightly older year-mate, and I speculated on the tensions this might cause between the two flamingelehs. But now, the balance of rosiness seems to have shifted in favor of age, and while the younger, # 29, has a handsome pink head and neck…


…The elder, # 28, has, like many late bloomers, blossomed:


I’m hoping that by now they’ve given up on the petty competition they had in the fall about who was looking rosier—and that, instead, they’ve decided to take a page from Adam’s Rib and each call the other “Pinkie.” (“'Y' for him, ‘ie’ for me.”)

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