By all means John, be my guest and use it as you like. I will remove the pic from my post after
you have it as the mascot pic, and just leave my comment with a slight adjustment of my post.
Peepers is a new addition to the flock here this year, was a hatchling last summer. There is an
audubon (sp?) guy here (local) that watches the birds for the gov. We have had some interesting
talks about bird migrations, or the lack there of. There is also a flock of "Caspian Gulls" that he
told me that flew in back about 1957 and have been here ever since. They are often on the logs
behind our boat. They have a very loud screeeecccchhhhh sound that grates the ears. He told me
and I have since checked it out, that most migratory birds have a piece of magnetite, or lodestone
in their brains that acts like a compass for them to navigate with. With out the earths magnetic field
being strong enough they can no longer fly north or south. They just take off and fly around for
awhile and then come back and land. They still form up and fly in formations and then just come
back "home" again. Changing times indeed.