Then there were flamingoes galore, for they sometimes build their nests by myriads in the marshes of Crau, sitting astride their nests which are as tall as their legs.
In front of us, directly to the north, lay a large lagoon, in which numerous swans and flamingoes were wading and swimming about.
The FROG appears with the flamingoes and hedgehogs.
Perhaps a few geese and ducks will go into the kitchen; but the rest--the red flamingoes and the brave pelicans who feed their young with their own blood?
As the day became brighter the flamingoes sat still--not appearing to be alarmed by the movements at the camp, which was about an hundred yards distant from their perch.
While engaged in this operation, they noticed a string offlamingoes on the muddy promontory, at the end where it joined the land.
This the flamingoes and other birds well know, and these creatures being fond of a place to perch upon, often avail themselves of the long serrated back of the crocodile, or the caïman.
They could see tall scarlet flamingoes on the farther shore, and smaller birds of the ibis kind.
These flamingoeswere perfectly safe, so far as the crocodile was concerned, and they knew it.
For long ere eggs could be hatched, and young reared, the full summer heats of June and July would already have set in, water would have utterly disappeared, and the flamingoes be left stranded in a scorching desert of sun-baked mud.
Flamingoes are not migratory in an ordinary sense--birds born on the equator seldom are.
Flamingoes and spoon-bills frequent the shallows in small numbers.
This, however, was far less numerous; the great bulk of East-African flamingoes were the common Ph.
Hard by the flamingoessome forty or fifty spoonbills were feeding.
This water might extend for three or four miles, but was literally concealed by the crowds of flamingoesthat covered its surface.
Flamingoes ignore the limits of continents, and shift their mobile headquarters between Europe and Africa as the respective rainfall in either happens to suit their requirements.
A considerable section of the flamingoes rose into the sky with a display of roseate tints against the blue .
Other flamingoes waded into the lake, filtering through their laminated beaks the minute organisms evidently abundant in its water.
The flamingoes by the lake shore are as numerous as they were in our time.
It was one of my great pleasures out here, going to see the Stotts and watching the flamingoes on the lake shore.
Pliny has told us all we care to know about flamingoes and lampreys.
The Flamingoes proper to the New World are: the Red Flamingo, all whose plumage glows with a more or less vivid red; and the Fiery Flamingo, probably only a variety of the preceding.
The former slave practised himself for some days in shooting arrows at the flamingoes on the lake.
The nests of the flamingoes lay open to the sun except where here and there dozed a brooding mother.
The water stirred and shimmered and the long flock of flamingoes settled down, each to its own mud hummock on the crowded summer beaches.
Crooked flights of flamingoes made a moving reflection on the water like a scarlet snake, but among the queer mangrove stems, that did not seem to know whether they were roots or branches, there was a lovely morning stillness.
And so we talked of pirates and buried treasure, while the sun set like a flight of flamingoes over a scene that was indeed like a picture torn from a Boy's Own Book of Adventure.
However, flamingoes and Tobias alike kept out of gunshot, and, as the week grew toward its end, Charlie began to grow a little restive.
I spent half a winter in Patagonia at a house built on the borders of a small lake, and regularly every night a small flock of Flamingoes came to feed in the water about 200 yards from the back of the house.
Our friends had not much time to observe these things closely, for at John's request the flamingoes alighted upon the top of the great wall, near to an entrance of the castle.
Then for a time they sailed on in silence, dangling from the ends of their cords, while the strong wings of the flamingoes beat the air with regular strokes just above their heads.
Illustration] The Flight of the Flamingoes After the Princess had left them, John Dough said to the King: "What is to become of Chick and of me?
Very well," answered the bird; and when they were over the center of the island the flamingoes gradually descended and alighted upon the ground.
You do not weigh much, so I will ask one of the flamingoes to fly with you to some other country.
So the flamingoes flew swiftly across the sea with them, and John Dough found that he sailed more easily while clutching the bird's foot than when the cord had been fastened around his body.
The flamingoes have promised to send her their strongest flyers to bear you and the Incubator Baby to another land, so I believe you will both live to encounter many further adventures.
Perhaps," said John, "the flamingoes will also carry you.
But just as he spoke the flamingoes uttered shrill screams and flew quickly into the air, and our friends turned in time to see a most curious creature come from the grove and approach them.
But just then came a flutter of wings, and the four flamingoes flew down and sailed along just over the heads of the prisoners.
I asked my young soldier if he had ever seen the flights of flamingoes that are said to make lovely the desert of the Crau, but I do not think that he had, although he would not say that they were not to be seen.
As in all flat countries it domed with magnificent skies; the mirage is a common effect of the scorched desolation; flights of rose-coloured flamingoes are to be seen among the commoner wild fowl.
Arriving within range, Paganel fired a blank charge (for he would not needlessly destroy even a bird), and all the flamingoes flew away, while the geographer gazed at them attentively through his glasses.
Flamingoes were not the sole attraction: the desolate region around abounded with wild life, furred and feathered, and many a pleasant bye-day was put in among the "vermin.
Like the latter, Flamingoes feed by day: and quantities of grass, etc.
One evening, while collecting specimens of small birds on the open marsh, the writer killed a pretty right-and-left at flamingoes with No 6.
Of theflamingoes themselves we secured several more lovely specimens; during two mornings devoted to shooting them, we bagged eight, six adults in rich rosy plumage, and two immature.
In books the statement has been made and often repeated that the Pelican breeds in Egypt, and my visit to Lake Menzaleh was very much taken just to settle whether it and Flamingoes did or did not breed there.
The first Flamingoes I saw were in the centre of a large flock of tufted Ducks.
Why are some of theflamingoes scarlet and some pink?
They passed numbers of small gray owls; and once Francisco spied a flock of flamingoes across the water of a small lake.
Well, that's what we used when we caughtflamingoes the other night.
They shall not gobble you up as the flamingoes did the frogs.
It was not for some weeks later that the desire for young flamingoes was gratified.
There were some twenty or thirty flamingoes upon it, for these birds are very gregarious.
So comical was their aspect, that the boys burst into a laugh, which so scared the flamingoes that they all took flight instantly.
I fired my rifle at the line of flamingoes when about 400 yards off, which used to bring them flying over the boat for curiosity, when I managed, generally with my gun, to bring down one or two.
Marmora, in his "Voyage to Sardinia," speaks in great admiration of the effect produced by a flock of flamingoes in the air.
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