Rocky Mountain Birds Comments

I like look at the birds and discover what is hidden there!

This is fun---I shall keep on till I find all of them---or I ask you on bended knee to have mercy on a silly goose like me ;)

I know it isn't a poem but I rated it a 5 because I enjoyed it and that is what art is to me. I grew up around the Rocky mountains so I found many of the birds in the puzzle. Now living in Florida and Brazil I am aware of many more that don't exist there. I love birds and I loved your piece.

An excellent poem.Kim Barney is surely a bird lover and a great puzzle master.I tried and could hardly identify ten or twelve birds hidden int this word-forest.Congratulations Grace Diane and also others who came very close to solving the riddle.

Oops --- PH sent my comment before I was finished. Here are the three birds that Bri did NOT find: LARK [line 1], KESTREL [line 2], and PIPIT [line 1 of third paragraph].

Congratulations to Grace Diane Jessen, who finally found all 30 and sent me the names in a private message. Here are the three that Bri Edwards did NOT find:

Well, you've stumped me. I found 28 and 29 if you are counting dee for chickadee.

Bri has found these: kinglet, wren, heron, grouse, sapsucker, dipper, jay, ani, raven, emu, swan, killdeer, pigeon, osprey, kingfisher, teal, crane, flicker, owl, loon, hen, coot, grebe, snipe, mallard, eagle, nuthatch, warbler. The are still three more. Can anyone find them?

Kim, yes, Bri is correct. The ANI is a bird, but does not live in the Rocky Mountains. It is a member of the cuckoo family. Congrats, Bri! You found a bird that Kim didn't even know he had!

(cont.) AND, last but not least (not bittern) : kinglet, wren, heron, grouse, , sapsucker. I believe that IS 23, including ani and emu. Emus may be raised on farms for meat or feathers? ? ? bri ;)

(cont.) AND: dipper [ the slate-gray American Dipper is North America's only truly aquatic songbird. It flits among midstream rocks and logs],

(cont.) AND: jay, ani ['Greater ani: Crotophaga major'], raven, emu, [ another not in Rocky Mountains, I say ], swan, killdeer, pigeon, osprey,

kingfisher, teal, crane, flicker, owl, loon, hen, coot, grebe, snipe, mallard, eaglet, [ 'aglet': The meaning of AGLET is the plain or point ], nuthatch, warbler,

The rest remains a puzzle though i can imagine some pretty birds......Top score

An interesting write with a beautiful picture of a bird, dear Poet Kim. Like Cowboy Ron says, i am able to identify only the one in picture.

The one in the picture is a male, by the way.

The only one I can find is the one in the picture. That one is a downy woodpecker. I believe it is the smallest woodpecker in the USA.

I found 23, but the other 7 have eluded me so far. I waS WANting to do better!