Pink Flamingos!

gnagel · Dec 6, 2019

After visiting the Silverback Gorillas, I moved over to the Pink Flamingos while visiting the Oklahoma City Zoo last month:

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Flamingo feeding crop milk to her young. Flamingos produce bird milk through glands along the digestive tract. Young flamingos eat this milk until they develop enough to eat mature food (usually for about two months). Until then, they feed exclusively on this milk.

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Thanks for looking...
Glenn

Dean_Gretsch · Dec 6, 2019

There's a discussion on here about bokeh. I do believe your photos here prove it definitely has an artistic value. This is as much a winner as the silverback thread.

gnagel · Dec 6, 2019

Dean_Gretsch said:
There's a discussion on here about bokeh. I do believe your photos here prove it definitely has an artistic value. This is as much a winner as the silverback thread.

Thanks Dean...there were many flamingos packed into a small area. The most challenging thing about capturing these photographs was controlling the backgrounds! Most of my time was spent waiting for a flamingo to move away from the flock and into a cleaner background--or one with other flamingos enough in the distance to provide a very colorful, blurred background.

Glenn