A lot of people have asked me why we would name anything WingNutz.  Pretty simple really, I have been Nutz over anything with Wings for my entire life! Waterfowl in particular, but Wings in General!

I remember the first time that I saw a bird!  The first Canada Goose I saw looked bigger than a Jumbo Jet and honked too!  I was the kid who fell (OK Jumped)  into the lake at the park 'cause I wanted to swim with the ducks.  I didn't care if they were all white, hell I was 2 years old!  I didn't know they came in colors too!

I devoured the Audobon books at an early age, then Peterson's field guides, etc.    As a kid I'd take the field guides to the blind in my hunting bag.  I'd try to figure out what everything that flew by us was, then try to figure out what sub-species of what, and so on, and so on. 

 So this study, if you'd like to call it that, has been Life-Long.  It is beyond obsession, it is my life and has been since I was a toddler.  My Name is Sean Mann and I AM A WINGNUT!

I am Nutz about Waterfowl, chasing them, hunting them, Calling to them in their own  languages.  Hell, I still fall in every once in a while, cause I forget I'm not one of 'em, and can't go swimming off with them.

It is more about you than it is me.  You wouldn't be reading this if you didn't think you were a WingNut too!

Just to confirm the condition, here are the warning signs:  You might be a WingNut if:

1-You mark the year's calendar with the day you usually see the first migrators and all of the days you think might be Opening day, before you mark your wife (or girlfriend's)  birthday, your kid's birthday, or your anniversary.

2-To you "March Madness" is the feeling you get when the fact that the Regular Waterfowl Seasons are closed, finally sinks-in.

3-You change the oil in your truck every 3000 rounds.

4- You have matching waders and wader jackets outfits in different camo patterns for the marsh, the field, and when you're "just gonna hunt outta the boat."

5- Your kids names are Hunter, Drake, Kent, and Winchester.

6- Your dogs names are Remington and Brant.

7- You ask your wife Etta to legally add Beretta to the beginning of her first name.

8- Your car doesn't run but your mud motor purrs like a kitten.