After spending hours puzzling over what bird that was that disappeared behind the third oak tree from the left, bird lovers might enjoy a different kind of puzzle. If that's the case for you, check out the Wasatch Audubon Society's (Ogden, UT) Puzzle Aerie Web page www.audubon.org/chapter/ut/wasatch/puzzle_aerie.htm. Here you'll find a variety of puzzles involving bird names (mostly birds seen in Utah but the names should be known to all).
For example, what two rhyming words, one a bird name, are defined by, "fishing gear for catching blackbirds?" Or, what word that is also a bird species' name is defined by "accept without question?" Or, what bird species is spelled out somewhere in the sentence, "Let's digest this over dinner?" (Answers below.) There are also rebuses, word squares, anagrams and cryptograms, new puzzles are added every other month.
Feel free to point Audubon members to the site or to reproduce in your chapter newsletter any of the puzzles that you find there (please credit "UteCoot"). If you have any questions about the site or the puzzles, contact Mort Somer at UteCoot@uswest.net.
You can also see the puzzles by subscribing to The Mountain Chickadee newsletter. For a one-year (6 issues) subscription, send your name and address and a check for $6, payable to Wasatch Audubon, to: Wasatch Audubon, P.O. Box 3211, Ogden, UT 84409.
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