Lesser Flamingoes! I don’t think I’ve ever seen them at Strandfontein before. Plenty of the Greater Flamingoes - and we saw lots of those too. Greater Flamingoes are almost all white except for their pink beaks and wing feathers. Lesser Flamingoes like these have deep red beaks, often quite red wing-feathers, and occasionally the whole bird is a lurid pink. Manual focus on the Fujifilm XE1 with a Nikon 300mm f4 and 1.4x converter 💪
My dad and I lit out at 6:45 to beat the traffic. Unfortunately this time, like last time, I decided to pre-charge with coffee and was talking a mile-a-minute so my dad missed the turn off and we had to do a detour through Grassy Park. Having not been further than Cape Town since March, it was like visiting an ’exotic’ foreign town. It was so exciting. Weird covid times.