Photo by Geoff Carter on Birdfy by Netvue
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in doing something about the weather. The plan is to convert a nearby vacant child-care facility into a Migration Disaster Center to provide counseling for robins, cranes and other bird species that erroneously assumed that by Mardi Gras time it is safe to return to Wisconsin from warm southern environs.
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
What is with this bird-brain malfunction!
That’s the very reason for Mardi Gras–to party out of your mind and forget any foolishness about heading north to build a nest and do the propagation thing in such places as Wisconsin.
Such admonition will be followed at the keeper’s Migration Disaster. Center with generous portions of appropriate bird food and therapeutic sessions with non-migratory Wisconsin residents, many of whom are in desperate need of their own therapeutic counseling.
Volunteer help at the MDC is sought.  Applicants will need to prove that they have been in Wisconsin all winter and can provide an explanation for such aberrant behavior.
