There’s a new figure of intrigue in the Hamptons this summer. They’re gorgeous, leggy, bright pink, already attracting the paparazzi—and may be christened “Georgie.” A peripatetic American flamingo has taken up residence in a pond in East Hampton and is becoming a tourist attraction and object of fascination for locals in the tony New York vacation town.
“Tons of people have just been driving from everywhere to see this flamingo,” Cathy Blinken, whose in-laws live on the pond, told The Daily Beast. “Some people have stayed for hours just to watch it.” The flamingo—whose gender is still unknown—first arrived late last month at Georgica Pond, a quiet, secluded lagoon on the western edge of East Hampton that boasts the vacation homes of Steven Spielberg , Martha Stewart , and Beyoncé and Jay-Z , among others.
Blinken, who happens to be married to the first cousin of Secretary of State Antony Blinken , was the first person to spot it from the back window of her in-laws’ house. At first she thought it was an odd-looking swan, she said, but after zooming in using her phone camera she knew it was something much more special. Blinken said she immediately called the local paper, the East Hampton Star .
“I just called the number and said, ‘Can you send somebody out to Georgica Pond? I cannot get a good shot of this flamingo,’” she said. “The guy who answered the phone was like, ‘A flamingo?’” she added. “I was like ‘Yeah, a flamingo.
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