Thanks for liking our love bird. Mrs. Gargoyle is an excellent photographer. BTW, I've started an avatar give-away thread in the Newbie forum; any of you who have some graphic design or photo chops and want to contribute, please do! And anyone who doesn't have those skill-sets but wants a nice avatar, pop by and grab one.
I am very cute. I know. Especially IRL. I think the best avatars are the "real" ones, either good photos shot by yourself, or created/photoshopped by yourself. Not just a result of some googling!
Tommy777 and a few others are using nice avatars this month: I also like the one matthewtravels is using, looks like the old Chicago CTA buses from my youth.
I vote for the squirrel! BTW, this is my claim to fame: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2009/08/13/squirrel-banff-photo-brandts-geographic.html
Saw one of these at the Union Railway Museum last month. (could be where that pic was taken) They even have the CTA electric buses that went out of use in the early '70's.