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FW: one of these birds…

Update. I overlooked a bird in the picture. Now we have four different ones.

From: Steve Taylor [mailto:spt@thetaylorcompany.net]
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 10:01 PM
To: Bill Taylor (Bill Taylor); David Taylor (David Taylor); Tom Taylor (Tom Taylor)
Subject: one of these birds…
…is not like the others. (Actually, two of these birds are not like the others.)

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tricycle

Judy already has a bike, but she wanted something different too. She got a tricycle with a big basket to haul cargo. She can take clothes to the laundry, or trash sacks to the dumpster. She can also ride Annie all over the park. Annie loves it.
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Fishing

Bald eagles and osprey catch fish with their talons. Pelicans, terns, gulls and wading birds fish with their beaks. Great blue herons are waders. They fish with their beaks, but they don’t just bite them. They spear them. What a setup! They use their entire face as a spear-gun. Then, without using their hands, they have to get the fish off their beak and into their mouth without dropping it.
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I have a question

The Jet Lag question. I know there was such a thing as Jet Lag. I know there was rapid travel before jets. No help from readers. Google didn’t help. I asked Judy. Judy found references to “Rapid Time Zone Change Syndrome” and “Desynchrony” from as early as the thirties. Disturbances to the circadian rhythm. Charles Lindberg wrote about it. Pan American flew piston engine powered Lockheed Constellations around the world from the mid-forties to the mid-sixties. They had to deal with it. They dealt with desynchrony. There just wasn’t an easy reference term for the problem before jet travel. Nothing so convenient as “Jet Lag”.