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Post by Ray on May 8, 2013 6:14:53 GMT
My latest You Tube video... This is a wonderful place to visit if you like wildlife and nature. I took my grand kids there last week when they were off school for the local elections... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivL1BWkFmM4Ray
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Post by vikingken on May 8, 2013 7:57:30 GMT
Beautiful presentation as always Ray.
I have often wondered how they keep the flamingos here, they have a habit of flapping off en mass if the food isn't right. Normally their food grows in water so toxic that nothing else can survive. In your photos there are ducks along with them, so they cant be dumping old car batteries in the pond. Its the food that gives them their colour, so they must be eating right. They have had flamingos here for donkeys years and I'm pretty sure they are not native.
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Post by Ray on May 8, 2013 8:38:17 GMT
Hi Ken,
I had a chat with the keeper and he was telling me that they put a dye in the food to maintain the colour. They have several types of Flamingos there some are less brightly coloured...
great place to visit...
Ray
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Post by vikingken on May 8, 2013 16:15:17 GMT
I have looked up what they use Ray. Ground prawn shells, beta-carotene and canthaxanthin. If we eat enought carrots and watermelon, we could turn the same colour. Persumably the algae they eat is native to our ponds and they use additives to encourage the algae to grow. I shouldn't think they import foreign algae, that sounds a bit risky. We already have a bad outbreak of Bullfrogs eating everything in sight.
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