Flamingos

I have fallen in love with flamingos. They are so weird with their upside-down beaks, their snake-like necks and the absurd quacking noise they make and at the same time they are so elegant in the way they carry their heads and move through the mud like models on a catwalk. Since they have come to forage at the vlei, dog-walking has become a birding expedition and I now go out burdened with binoculars as well as dogleads and poo bags.