Flamingos

Since I moved to Florida I've looked for Flamingos, sometimes mistaking Spoonbills for Flamingos... People told me that you have to go further south.
Now after spending weeks traveling through the everglades and not seeing any flamingos, I looked on line and and found from an Audebon Society article, because of the draining of the Everglades, that other than Zoos and a couple of Parks there are NO MORE wild Flamingos in Florida.
Are we missing something?

Here are the locks and flood gates into Lake Okeechobee

For Father's Day we took a drive around Lake Okeechobee

Deb's Birthday

Spent the day at Wiggin's Beach