Wingspan Online Daily Game Commentary - September 12, 2023

  Starting Birds, Food, and Bonus

Birds

• Common Cuckoo - for eggs between turns
• Barred Owl - low food cost, potential to tuck while gaining food
• Red Crossbill - for more food

Food: Rat and Wheat

Bonus Card: Ecologist - Birds in your habitat with the fewest birds

Round 1

1. Draw Birds - Whooping Crane (from tray, for another bonus and a Wetlands bird)
1. Worm from other player's Anna's Hummingbird
2. Play Bird - Barred Owl in Woodlands (potential tucks while gaining food)
1. Wheat from other player's Anna's Hummingbird
3. Lay Eggs - 2 eggs
4. Play Bird - Red Crossbill in Woodlands (for more food)
5. Gain Food - Worm and Rat from bird feeder (for Common Cuckoo and Whooping Crane), Wheat from Red Crossbill's power, Barred Owl's power successful (Carolina Chickadee tucked)
6. Play Bird - Common Cuckoo in Woodlands (for potential eggs between turns, for round end goal)
7. Draw Birds - Black-Necked Stilt (from tray, for more birds)
1. Worm from other player's Anna's Hummingbird
2. Egg from Common Cuckoo's power
8. Draw Birds - Black-Necked Stilt (from tray, high points, bird for Grasslands)

Round End: none

Round End Goal - Birds in a Row: 4 points (tied for 1st w/ 3 birds) 

Round 2

1. Gain Food - Wheat and Rat from bird feeder (for Whooping Crane, hoped for Worm for Black-Necked Stilt), Wheat from Red Crossbill's power, Barred Owl's power successful (American Goldfinch tucked)
1. Worm from other player's Anna's Hummingbird
2. Play Bird - Black-Necked Stilt in Wetlands (drew Eurasian Magpie from tray and Common Buzzard from deck)
1. Egg from Common Cuckoo's power
3. Play Bird - Whooping Crane in Wetlands (Rodentologist bonus card - Birds that eat Rats, other option was birds in hand at end of game)
4. Draw Birds - Northern Goshawk (from tray, fro Rodentologist) and Eurasian Hobby (from deck)
5. Draw Birds - Griffon Vulture (from tray, for caching rats round end) and Wood Duck (from deck)

Game End - Another Player took too long