"Muses" mused: > Id hang out by my hives and guard them with a 12 guage 7 or 8 shot. The mighty big-game hunter can't even spell "gauge" !!! :) The Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act protects all types of woodpeckers and packs a $5,000 fine and/or six months of sharing a room with a guy named "Spike" in the federal pen, where violators will be certain to be the object of constant scorn and abuse, since even hard-core criminals have contempt for pedophiles and killers of cute harmless animals. Your nickname will likely be "Biatch", as in "Spike's Biatch". > Nothing is so vaulable as a well wintered hive! How about a colorful bird? > We still expect a couple months before the bee's will be up and about. So you'd better wear thermal underwear while standing around in the snow waiting for Woody Woodpecker. It will be a very long wait. Woodpeckers are smarter than guys who think that they can get within shotgun range of one. > On others lists we call it the three S's. > Shoot shovel and shut up. The "Three Ss" that would best apply here are "Stupid, Savage, and Slipshod". jim (who possesses "Weapons of Mass Communication")