UPDATE, Tuesday, October 2, 2012:
The flock has long flown from where they had landed in a front yard on Town Hill, most probably to make its way south to warmer climes. But not the NHPlus crew. We’ve been working hard at getting our weekly paper, the NH+ INDEPENDENT, ready and delivered to everyone’s mailbox on Saturdays. Now with 3 issues successfully published, we’re beginning to make time for short forays to NewHartfordhPlus to begin adding news items again.
So for those of you who have visited NewHartfordPlus and have too often in the past week or so been been met by the flock of flamingoes on Town Hill: Take heart, the flock has taken flight, never to return. Or so we hope – for who was it who said “Never say never again?”…
Lesser Flamingos flying, Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya. Photo: Paul Mannix
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Walking down Town Hill to the office on Friday morning I could hardly believe my eyes: A flock of flamingoes had landed on a neighbor’s lawn. Not just any flamingoes; these were purple and made quite a showing in the bright morning sun. Not your normal sighton Town Hill on a late summer day…
The extraordinary flock that landed on a neighbor’s front yard on Town Hill. Photo: Maria Moore
The surreal scene of purple flamingoes against the late-summer New Hartford garden scene. Photo: Maria Moore
