While on my way to lunch in Frankfort today, I saw a Merlin fly up and land on a utility pole at the SE corner of the jct. of US 60 west and US 127 south. I pulled into a parking lot below the pole and watched the female munching down on her lunch of some species of finch or sparrow. Anyone needing a little chuckle this evening should find your way to the TN-BIRD listserv archive and scroll down to TN-BIRD administrator Wallace Coffey's take on the suggestion by one Outdoors columnist for the Knoxville newspaper to open a season on hunting Sandhill Cranes in Tennessee. You go get 'em, Wallace! bpb, Frankfort