My wife and I are ardent birders. We're not into lists and fancy binoculars and camaras, but are into the beauty, liveliness, intelligence, alertness, freedom, diversity, and especially the breathtaking flight of these amazing living dinosaurs. As part of our "birding", we have six bird feeders* in our back yard, and have planted a bird and butterfly friendly garden.

I guess Wings is a wish and goal, to be metaphorically like the birds we so admire.

It turns out that Wings is a fairly common Username throughout the web, so I needed to add something to use this same ID on many websites. 42 is the year I was born. Ebay even had another Wings42, so in that case I used Wings + my zip code.

Wing42 (no "s") was a typo that the moderators couldn't or wouldn't fix for me. Adding the "s" isn't worth setting up a new account.

* Two tube grain feeders, one platform feeder, 1 goldfinch niger seed feeder, and 2 liter-sized hummingbird feeders. The tube and platform feeders attract a few rodents. We enjoy watching the two species of mice, two of rats, and one type of ground squirrel like any other wildlife as long as they stay outside of the house.