you were sweet to take the time/effort to do this--and then to share it with us! and we've all heard the one about benjamin franklin, right? how he lobbied to make wild turkey our national bird, NOT the bald eagle.

would he have dug the irony that just by the numbers now we're more likely to spot a bald eagle eating garbage out of a dumpster or at a landfill than in the wilds? the symbol of our country?

wild turkeys won't eat garbage. oh, and friend chuck just sent me this, shot on his way to work in oJai california: