Essay by Tim Westby
Wildlife – June 2004 – Colorado Central Magazine
THE FIRST TIME I stood on the shores of Great Salt Lake, I spotted something pink in the midst of what seemed like a bazillion different species of bobbing waterfowl.
“Are there supposed to be pink flamingos in Utah?” I asked my biologist wife while looking through a pair of binoculars.
“It’s plastic,” she said, handing the binoculars back to me.