Wingspan Online Daily Game Commentary - March 28, 2024

Starting Birds, Food, and Bonus

Birds

• White Stork - for Mechanical Engineer and birds while laying eggs
• Lesser Frigatebird - high points
• Greater Prairie-Chicken - for Mechanical Engineer and another bonus card
• Cooper's Hawk - for Mechanical Engineer and low food cost Woodlands bird

Food

• Nectar - for Cooper's Hawk
• Berry - for Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (plan to draw first turn)

Bonus Card: Mechanical Engineer - Sets of the 4 nest types

Round 1

1. Draw Birds - Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (form tray, for Mechanical Engineer and another bonus card)
2. Play Bird - Cooper's Hawk in Woodlands (for Mechanical Engineer and to get far enough in Woodlands for 2 food)
3. Gain Food - 2 Nectar from bird feeder (for White Stork), Cooper's Hawk's power unsuccessful (Broad-Winged Hawk)
4. Gain Food - Nectar and Worm from bird feeder (for Red-Cockaded Woodpecker), Cooper's Hawk's power successful (Wrybill tucked)
5. Play Bird - White Stork in Grasslands (for Mechanical Engineer and birds while laying egsg
6. Lay Eggs - 2 eggs, Northern Bobwhite from White Stork's power
7. Draw Birds - Black-Tailed Godwit (for another bonus card)
8. Gain Food - Wheat and Rat from bird feeder (for Black-Tailed Godwit), Cooper's Hawk's power unsuccessful (Red-Breasted Merganser)

Round End: none

Round End Goal - Food in Personal Supply: 4 points (1st w/ 4 food) 

Game End - Other Player Took Too Long