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Tom Shea wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:43 pm

Acarl wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:49 am

Tom Shea wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:26 pm Grid done. Hello Isaac.

For the bird lovers here, here are a few picks of the local cardinal. It is not actually a cardinal but likes impersonating one.

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Apologies for hogging the page, but my message formatting skills are pretty much non-existent.

Beautiful! What is he?

https://www.birdsofhawaii.info/p/red-cr ... dinal.html

There are very few actual cardinals in Hawaii, but these are everywhere.

They are not native, but then again, none actually are. The original hot lava was not conducive to nest building.

Wasn't there some crazy woman a few generations ago who thought it'd be a good idea to import all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare to Hawaii?

(You know... one of the downsides of living in the days of the internet is you can't casually make mention of these anecdotes you might have heard once upon a time without feeling obligated to look it up lest you be accused of lazily spreading false information without due diligence... Oh, well, here I go... Okay, maybe it was New York and not Hawaii but I think I first heard it in Hawaii.... but.... by luck your bird was almost the very first hit: https://www.kqed.org/quest/50085/invasi ... on-the-way)

I went down what I am pretty sure is a rabbit hole- but I ended up finding an answer. A dark and twisted answer. . . Can't wait for the zoom

Finally ashore but definitely a tough one.

I’ve got 7 broken pencils here...See you on the ZOOM!

STL-D wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:21 am Finally got it. Even though I had an inkling, would still be at sea without AaronT giving me a link to Discord.

What is Discord?

Ashore - I had step 2 but was nudged towards step 1 through the zoom call!

I'm on shore thanks to the Zoom meeting. I really should have gotten this one.

Ashore due to Zoom call, 0% chance of solving this one.

After a nudge from the Zoom chat, I'm striding towards the bar and looking forward to a refreshing beverage.

NO WAY an ordinary Muggle would solve this! Ashore thanks to zoom call. A more apt answer would be impossible.

Ashore, Thanks for the Zoom nudge. Nice bottle of red tonight

Well....my brothers and I had the right letters in the wrong order....so now we are ASHORE! PHEW!

Ashore!!

On shore! Thanks.

On shore thanks to Zoomers. In hindsight, really happy I didn't put more effort into it. Looking forward to a tricky medical meta someday.
Regards to all,
Jim

On shore though a bit waterlogged getting here. Thanks to a wonderful zoom!!

Ashore with some Zoom. It will be interesting to see how this gets explained in a few, short sentences!

At sea. I think I see the meta instructions but can't make anything work. I have two stacks of algebra exams to grade this weekend, so I'm going to find a dry spot at the bar and stay with Isaac.

On shore thanks for nice nudges in the Zoom Room.

Don and Lisa

Slogged to shore with the zoomers. Oy.