Pink Brightens Up A Dark Morning
Very early this morning it was gloomy with a light rain falling, but that didn’t stop our new pink arrival from making an appearance in the marsh.
In fact, he seemed to be enjoying himself! He pranced and preened for a while until finally taking off to go find a nice breakfast far out in the salt marsh.
It’s supposed to be a cloudy, rainy weekend but hopefully the spoonie will stick around until the weather improves.
Phil Lanoue Photography 
Such grace…;} Great captures.
Thanks very much, they really are fun birds!
Aw, these are just lovely, Phil. I feel like I have front row seats to the best ballet around!
Glad you enjoyed the show! These funny pink birds should charge admission. I bet many would pay! 🙂
You’re so lucky to have such a beautiful visitor, Phil. Great captures. 🙂
Thank you Sylvia. We were sad when for the first time in five years not a single one showed up in all of July, but nice this one is working to make August special for us. We are also strongly suspecting this is our dysfunctional spoonbill “Mr. Cranky” from last summer.
It looks like he was flashing those wonderful pink feathers around just to cheer things up. Lovely catch, Phil.
It did look like that and it worked! Even gloomy grey improves with the addition of some bright pink. 🙂
It’s been a rainy day all round then! Great photos, what an unusual shaped beak he has!
Yes they do have that ‘spoon’ or spatula shaped bill. Thanks very much and glad you enjoyed these photos!
Beautiful bird.
They are bright and will literally stop traffic.
i love pink.. your photos are so beautiful.
I’m very happy you liked seeing out funny pink friend!
This certainly brightened up my Sunday! Great impressions, Phil.
Best wishes for you, Dina
Well I am thrilled our pink visitor helped brighten your day Dina! Unfortunately it seems he has left the area already.
Hope he returns and brings friends!
We’ll keep our fingers crossed! 😃
Thanks. Alyce went out *early* this morning to look for him (while I slept) and did not see any pink anywhere, and no one saw him yesterday so looks like he has moved on. August and Sept. are usually good months here for spoonies so we continue to hope.
Wow… what a beautiful bird…
Superb images 🙂
Thanks very much for checking these out and glad you liked seeing the big pink bird!
Wow. Phil, your photos are amazing. I am so glad I found your blog as I am a beginning photographer and a beginning birder. I live in Florida surrounded by many of the same birds as you so this is especially nice. You can bet I will be pouring over your archived photos for the beauty and the learning.
I greatly appreciate your very kind words and am happy to hear you enjoy seeing the photos!
Being in Florida should provide you with excellent opportunities to view and photograph the tremendous wildlife! Enjoy!
He’s beautiful, your lucky to have such great and beautiful nature where you are…what a great way to start a Sunday morning…
Thanks a million and I’m very happy you enjoyed seeing our goofy pink visitor!
Such a gorgeous bird – Thea was most impressed!
Well I’m thrilled to hear that Thea liked our spoone friend! You have to love a big goofy pink bird!
Fabulous photos! Love those wings. In the third photo it looks like he’s doing a little dance for you 😉
He really does look like he is doing a little dance routine there! I sometimes honestly think they purposely show off.
Sort of like the alligtors. 🙂
Ha ha! I’m now imagining the alligators doing a little dance for you 😉
Ha! See today’s post. Not exactly a dancer but he was surprisingly light on his feet. 🙂
Beautiful photos! I love each, but the third one especially, as I like his “dance step”. What a goofy, yet pretty, guy. That’s our boy!
He is quite the snappy dancer isn’t he?!? These guys are a real treat but sadly looks like he is gone already. We hope more show up soon though.
Darn it! I hope you guys get the group back this season!
I know, although we were happy this one showed up, it’s not like last summer when we had close to a dozen at one point.
Beautiful images, Phil !! Thanks
Well I appreciate you looking and commenting, thanks and glad you enjoyed the photos!