I'm with Pie Eye on this. It's senseless to watch birds. No use in it at all. It leads nowhere. I suspect that one of the things one is condemned to do in Hell...for the somewhat smaller sins...is to watch birds for hours and hours...their varieties, of course, being very limited and unremarkable.

If you've really been bad, you have to downhill ski for hours on wet snow and then make speeches at ski lodges to crowds of drunken, noisy people who act like they know you, but really don't care for you in the least.

I'd rather eat thistles, frankly.