Landing Flamingo

Greetings, Fellow Flamingo Spotters And Other Bird Fans!

I am here to share my recent captures of these alien-looking birds which have been visiting the salt pans near the port of Burgas for a few years now.

SO, I knew the spot they prefer and I know they can be seen there sometimes, usually during spring and autumn. When exactly... hard to tell. You just gotta check on the spot from time to time and this Saturday I got lucky.

Camera Settings:

Aperture F 4
Shutter Speed 1/1600 of a second
Light Sensitivity ISO 100
Focal Length 200 mm

Camera used:

Canon EOS 2000D with a Canon 70-200 4 L lens.

I had three shots at the landing couple (in the pure mathematical sense) and this was the second one. I decided it would look the best as a leading and thumbnail image.

But here are the shots before:

And after:

I have taken photographs of the same species before, last year, I think. Same place. But... they were all just walking and I had not seen them flying up until this time. I had actually no memories of even seeing other people's images of the intense red coloring on the underside of their wings, nor the black feathers.

Well, perhaps I have seen that and just forgotten about it. It's something else when you observe it live.

Meetings like these... They make me think of getting a more powerful zoom lens. For bird-spying purposes, mostly. And it's the right season to do so, the beginning of local activity along the Via Pontica Migration Rout. It's either soon or... next year... or the one after... or the one after...

And the aliens might not be here forever.

Here's more proof of them being alien to Earth.

It must have been them that inspired the description of the tripods from War of the Worlds.

Peace and Focus!

Yours,

Manol