Bullmatian

Wingspan

Initial Setup

Bill discards fish and rodents and keeps 2 birds.

Christopher discards fish and berries and keeps 2 birds.

Dave discards invertebrate and berry and keeps 2 birds.

Chris discards grain, berry, and rodent and keeps 3 birds.

Round 1

Actions

Bill draws a bird card, taking the Chipping Sparrow.

Christopher draws a bird card, taking the White-Throated Swift.

Dave gains food, taking a seeds using an invertebrate/grain die in the Bird Feeder.

Chris draws a bird card, taking the Great Egret.

Bill draws a bird card, taking the Ruddy Duck.

Christopher draws a bird card, taking the Blue Jay.

Dave gains food, taking an invertebrate using an invertebrate/grain die in the Bird Feeder.

Chris gains food, taking a fish from the Bird Feeder.

Bill spends 1 invertebrate to play the Ruddy Duck into the wetlands habitat.

Christopher spends 1 seeds to place the Carolina Chickadee in the forest habitat.

Dave spends 1 seeds to place the Grasshopper Sparrow in the grasslands habitat.

Chris spends 1 invertebrate and 1 fish to play the Hooded Merganser in the wetlands habitat.

Bill spends 1 seeds to place the Chipping Sparrow in the forest habitat.

Christopher spends 1 invertebrate to place the White-Throated Swift in the grasslands habitat.

Dave spends 1 invertebrate, 1 fish, and 1 rodent to place the Black-Crowned Night Heron in the wetlands habitat.

Chris lays 2 eggs on the Hooded Merganser.

Bill draws a bird card, taking the Red Shouldered Hawk, activates the Ruddy Duck, drawing 2 cards, and discards 1 card.

Christopher spends 1 rodent to play the Black Chinned Hummingbird in the wetlands habitat.

Dave lays 2 eggs on the Grasshopper Sparrow and activates the Grasshopper Sparrow, laying an egg on the Black-Crowned Night-Heron.

Chris draws a bird card, taking the Carolina Wren and activating the Hooded Merganser to no effect.
Bill gains food, taking an invertebrate, rerolling the food dice, discarding a bird card to take a rodent, and activating the Chipping Sparrow to lay an egg on the Ruddy Duck.
Christopher gains food, taking a berry, and activating the Carolina Chickadee, caching a seeds on the card.
Dave draws a bird card from the deck, spends an egg from the Black-Crowned Night-Heron to take the Mourning Dove, and activates the Black-Crowned Night-Heron to spend an egg from the Grasshopper Sparrow to gain an invertebrate.
Chris gains food, taking a berry.
Bill spends a rodent and an egg from the Ruddy Duck to play the Red-Shouldered Hawk in the forest habitat.
Christopher gains food, taking an invertebrate, and activates the Carolina Chickadee, caching a seeds on the card.
Dave spends an invertebrate to play the Spotted Towhee in the forest habitat.
Chris spends 1 berries to play the Carolina Wren, taking the Turkey Vulture and one bird from the deck.
Bill gains food, rerolling the dice in the bird feeder, taking seeds and berries, activating the Red-Shouldered Hawk, drawing the Feruginous Hawk with a wingspan of 142cm, which is discarded, and activates the Chipping Sparrow, laying an egg on the Ruddy Duck.
Christopher lays eggs, placing 2 eggs on the Black-Chinned Hummingbird.
Dave spends seeds and an egg to place the Mourning Dove in the wetlands habitat.
Chris plays the Turkey Vulture in the grassland habitat.

Round End

Dave has 2 birds in the wetlands habitat, while the others all have 1.

Round 2

Actions

Christopher draws a bird card, taking the Black-Billed Magpie, and activates the Black-Chinned Hummingbird.  All players gain berries.

Dave lays 2 eggs on the Grasshopper Sparrow and activates the Grasshopper Sparrow, laying an egg on the Black-Crowned Night-Heron.

Chris gains food, rerolling the dice in the bird feeder and taking the seeds/invertebrate as an invertebrate.

Bill draws a bird card, taking the Yellow-Breasted Chat, activates the Ruddy Duck, drawing 2 bird cards and discarding a bird card.

Christopher draws a bird card, taking the Loggerhead Shrike, and activates the Black-Chinned Hummingbird.  All players gain berries.

Dave draws bird cards, drawing from the deck and taking the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, activates the Mourning Dove, laying an egg on it, then activates the Black-Crowned Night-Heron, spending an egg from the Grasshopper Sparrow to gain a seeds.

Chris gains food, taking a rodent.

Bill spends 1 egg, 2 berries, and 1 invertebrate to play the Yellow-Breasted Chat in the wetlands habitat.

Christopher gains food, taking a rodent and rerolling the dice, activating the Carolina Chickadee and caching grain on the card.

Dave gains food, taking seeds using the seeds/invertebrate die and activating the Spotted Towhee, gaining more seeds.

Chris spends 1 egg, 1 rodent, and 2 berries to play the Chihuahuan Raven in the grasslands habitat.

Bill gains food, taking 2 seeds, activates the Red-Shouldered Hawk, drawing the Broad-Winged Hawk, which is discarded, and activates the Chipping Sparrow, laying an egg on the card.

Christopher spends 1 egg and 2 berries to place the Black-Billed Magpie in the grassland habitat.

Dave spends 2 seeds, 1 berry, and an egg from the Black-Crowned Night-Heron to play the Trumpeter Swan in the wetlands habitat.

Chris gains food, taking a fish.

Bill draws bird cards, taking the White-Crowned Sparrow and Bairds Sparrow, activates the Yellow-Breasted Chat, moving it to the grasslands habitat, and activates the Ruddy Duck, drawing 2 bird cards.  Discards 1 bird card.

Christopher draws bird cards, taking the Red Crossbill and activating the Black-Chinned Hummingbird.  All players gain berries.

Dave draws bird cards, taking the Common Merganser and a card from the deck, activates the Mourning Dove, laying an egg on it, and activates the Black-Crowned Night-Heron, spending an egg from the Grasshopper Sparrow to gain a fish.
Chris lays eggs, placing one each on the Chihuahuan Raven, Turkey Vulture, and Carolina Wren, and activates the Chihuahuan Raven, removing the egg from the Turkey Vulture to gain 2 fish.
Bill spends 1 egg, 2 seeds, and 1 berry to play the Wood Duck in the forest habitat.
Christopher draws bird cards, taking the Northern Mockingbird and activating the Black-Chinned Hummingbird.  All players gain berries.
Dave spends 1 berry and an egg from the Mourning Dove to play the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird in the Grasslands habitat.
Chris exchanges 2 berries for 1 rodent, spends 1 rodent, 2 fish, and 1 egg from the Chihuahuan Raven to play the Great Egret in the wetlands habitat, then spends 2 fish and 1 egg from the Carolina Wren to play the Black Skimmer in the wetlands habitat.
Bill lays eggs, placing one each on the Chipping Sparrow, Yellow-Breasted Chat, and discarding a berry to place one on the Ruddy Duck and activates the Yellow-Breasted Chat, moving it to the wetlands habitat.
Christopher gains food, rerolling the dice and taking seeds, and activates the Carolina Chickadee, caching seeds on the card.
Dave lays eggs, placing 1 on the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird and 2 on the Black-Crowned Night-Heron, activates the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, taking 1 invertebrate using the invertebrate/seeds die.  Chris takes a rodent.  Bill takes an invertebrate using the invertebrate/seeds die.  Christopher rerolls the dice and takes seeds.  Dave activates the Grasshopper Sparrow, laying an egg on the Mourning Dove.
Chris draws bird cards, taking the Cooper's Hawk, one from the deck, discards and egg from the Hooded Merganser to draw another card from the deck, activates the Black Skimmer, rolling 1 die and getting a fish, which is cached on the card, and activating the Hooded Merganser, reactivating the Black Skimmer, rolling 1 die and getting berries.  Christopher activates the Black-Billed Magpie, taking seeds from the bird feeder.
Bill takes food, gaining 2 seeds, discarding a bird card to gain a third food, rerolling the food dice and taking an invertebrate from an invertebrate/seeds die, activating the Wood Duck, drawing 2 cards from the deck, activating the Red-Shouldered Hawk, drawing a Brant, which has a wingspan of 112cm > 75cm, activating the Chipping Sparrow, laying an egg on the Red-Shouldered Hawk, and discarding a bird card.

Round End

Christopher and Dave each have 1 bird with eggs in a bowl nest, Chris has 0, and Bill has 2.


Round 3

Actions

Dave spends 1 berry, 1 fish, and 2 eggs from the Mourning Dove to play the Common Merganser in the wetlands habitat.

Chris lays eggs, 2 on the Chihuahuan Raven and 1 on the Great Egret, activating the Chihuahuan Raven to discard 1 egg on it and gain 2 invertebrates.

Bill spends 1 seed and 1 invertebrate to play Baird's Sparrow in the grassland habitat.

Christopher spends 1 seed, 1 berry, and an 1 egg from the Black-Chinned Hummingbird to play a Blue Jay in the forest habitat.

Dave spends 1 seed and an egg from the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird to play the Song Sparrow in the grasslands habitat.

Chris draws bird cards, taking the Atlantic Puffin and 2 cards from the deck, discarding an egg from the Great Egret, activating the Black Skimmer, rolling 1 die, getting a rodent, activates the Hooded Merganser, re-activating the Black Skimmer, rolling 1 die and getting a rodent.

Bill spends 1 seed, 1 invertebrate, and an egg from the Yellow-Breasted Chat to play the White-Crowned Sparrow in the grassland habitat.

Christopher lays eggs, placing them on the Black-Billed Magpie, activates the White-Throated Swift, tucking a card behind it and laying an egg on itself.

Dave draws bird cards, taking the House Wren and 2 cards from the deck, activates the Common Merganser, rolling an invertebrate/grain, activates the Mourning Dove, laying an egg on the card, activates the Black-Crowned Night-Heron, discarding an egg from the Mourning Dove to gain a seed.

Chris lays eggs, placing 3 on the Great Egret, activating the Chihuahuan Raven, discarding an egg from the Great Egret and gaining 2 seeds.

Bill lays eggs, placing 3 on the Ruddy Duck, activates the White-Crowned Sparrow, moving it to the wetlands habitat, and activating the Baird's Sparrow, laying an egg on the Wood Duck.

Christopher draws bird cards, taking the Common Nighthawk and discarding an egg from the White-Throated Swift to draw a card from the deck and activates the Black-Chinned Hummingbird.  All players gain berries.

Dave lays eggs, placing 3 on the Mourning Dove, discarding a berry to place on on the Common Merganser, activating the Song Sparrow and moving it to the forest, activating the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, taking fish from the feeder.  Chris takes seeds.  Bill takes an invertebrate.  Christopher rerolls the dice and takes an invertebrate from the invertebrate/seed die.  Dave activates the Grasshopper Sparrow to put another egg on the Common Merganser.

Chris spends 1 seed, 1 berry, and an egg from the Great Egret to play the Common Grackle in the grasslands habitat.
Bill draws bird cards, taking the Hermit Thrush, a card from the deck, and discards an egg from the Chipping Sparrow to take a second card from the deck, activates the White-Crowned Sparrow, moving it to the grassland habitat, activates the Yellow-Breasted Chat, moving it to the grassland habitat, and activates the Ruddy Duck, drawing 2 cards from the deck.  Discards 1 card.
Christopher draws bird cards, taking the Stellar's Jay and discarding an egg from the Black-Billed Magpie to draw a card from the deck, then activates the Black-Chinned Hummingbird.  All players gain berries.
Dave spends 1 invertebrate and an egg from the Mourning Dove to play the House Wren in the grasslands habitat, then spends 1 seed, 1 fish, and 2 eggs from the Common Merganser to play the Brewer's Blackbird in the grasslands habitat.
Chris spends 2 invertebrates, 1 berry, and an egg from the Great Egret to play the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo in the forest habitat.
Bill lays eggs, placing 3 on the Wood Duck, discards 1 berry to place an egg on the Ruddy Duck, activates the Yellow-Breasted Chat, moving it to the forest habitat, activates the White-Crowned Sparrow, moving it to the forest habitat, and activating the Baird's Sparrow, laying an egg on itself.  Chris activates the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo and lays an egg on the Great Egret.
Christopher spends 2 invertebrates and an egg from the Black-Billed Magpie to play the Common Nighthawk in the grasslands habitat.
Dave lays eggs, placing 1 on the Mourning Dove and 3 on the House Wren, activates Brewer's Blackbird, tucking a card behind it and laying an egg on the House Wren, activating the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, taking a rodent from the feeder.  Chris takes fish from the feeder.  Bill rerolls the dice and takes seeds from the feeder using an invertebrate/seeds die.  Christopher takes an invertebrate from the feeder.  Dave activates the Grasshopper Sparrow, laying an egg on the House Wren. 
Chris lays eggs, placing 2 on the Great Egret and 1 on the Chihuahuan Raven, and discarding seeds to place on on the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo, activates the Common Grackle, tucking a card behind it and laying an egg on it, and activates the Chihuahuan Raven to discard an egg from the Common Grackle and take 2 fish.
Bill spends 2 berries, 1 seed, and an egg from the Wood Duck to play the Purple Gallinule in the wetlands habitat.
Christopher draws bird cards, taking the Great Horned Owl, then activates the Black-Chinned Hummingbird.  All players gain berries.

Round End

Dave, Chris, and Bill each have 5 or more eggs in platform nests, Christopher has 1.

Round 4

Actions

Chris draws bird cards, taking the Savannah Sparrow and Sprague's Pipit and discarding an egg from the Chihuahuan Raven to draw a card from the deck, activates the Black Skimmer to roll the unused dice (invertebrate and berries), then activates the Hooded Merganser to reactivate the Black Skimmer to roll the unused dice (fish and rodent), caching the fish on the card.

Bill takes food, taking a rodent, rerolling the dice, taking 2 invertebrates, discarding a bird card to take a seed, activates the White-Crowned Sparrow, moving it to the wetlands, activates the Yellow-Breasted Chat, moving it to the wetlands, activates the Wood Duck, drawing 2 bird cards, activates the Red-Shouldered Hawk, drawing the American Woodcock, with a wingspan of 46cm is tucked under the Hawk, activates the Chipping Sparrow, laying an egg on the Wood Duck, and discards a card.  Christopher activates the Black-Billed Magpie, taking seeds from the bird feeder.  Chris activates the Turkey Vulture, rerolling the dice and taking seeds using an invertebrate/seeds die from the bird feeder.

Christopher spends 1 rodent, 4 berries, and an egg from the Black-Billed Magpie to play the Great Horned Owl in the forest habitat.

Dave draws cards, taking the Pileated Woodpecker, Cedar Waxwing, and a card from the deck, activates the Common Merganser to roll a die (seeds), activates the Mourning Dove, laying an egg on it, and activates the Black-Crowned Night-Heron to consume an egg from the Mourning Dove to gain an invertebrate.

Chris spends 1 seed and 2 eggs from the Great Egret to play the Savannah Sparrow in the grasslands habitat, then spends 1 seed, 1 invertebrate, and an egg each from the Great Egret and Chihuahuan Raven to play the Sprague's Pipit in the grasslands habitat, drawing 2 bonus cards and keeping 1.

Bill spends 1 invertebrate, 1 berry, and an egg from the Ruddy Duck to play the Eastern Bluebird in the grasslands habitat, then spends 1 invertebrate, 1 seed, and an egg from the Ruddy Duck to play the Bronzed Cowbird in the grasslands habitat.

Christopher lays eggs, placing 2 eggs on the Great Horned Owl, discards berries to lay 2 eggs on the White-Throated Swift, activates the Common Nighthawk, moving it to the forest, and activating the White-Throated Swift, tucking a card and laying an egg on the Carolina Chickadee.  Chris activates the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo to lay an egg on the Hooded Merganser and bill activates the Bronzed Cowbird to lay an egg on the Eastern Bluebird.

Dave spends 2 berries and 2 eggs from the Black-Crowned Night-Heron to play the Cedar Waxwing in the grasslands habitat.

Chris lays eggs, placing 2 on the Carolina Wren, 2 on the Hooded Merganser, and discarding berries to place 1 on the Turkey Vulture, then activates the Common Grackle, tucking a card behind it and placing an egg on it.

Bill draws bird cards, taking the Dark Eyed Junco and 2 cards from the deck, activates the Yellow-Breasted Chat, moving it to the grassland habitat, activates the White-Crowned Sparrow, moving it to the grasslands habitat, activates the Purple Gallinule; all players draw 1 card, and activates the Ruddy Duck, drawing 2 cards.  Discards 1 card.

Christopher spends an egg and 2 seeds to play the Ring-Billed Gull in the wetlands habitat.
Dave lays eggs, placing 4 on the Common Merganser, discarding 1 berry to place 1 on the Trumpeter Swan, activates the Cedar Waxwing, tucking a card behind it and gaining a berry, activating the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, starting with Bill.  Bill takes a fish.  Christopher takes seeds.  Dave takes seeds.  Chris rerolls the dice and takes an invertebrate using the invertebrate/seed die.  Dave activates the Grasshopper Sparrow, laying an egg on the Trumpeter Swan.  Bill uses the Bronzed Cowbird to lay an egg on the Purple Gallinule.
Chris spends 3 fish, an egg from the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo, and an egg from the Common Grackle to play the Atlantic Puffin in the wetlands habitat, drawing 2 bonus cards and keeping 1.
Bill lays eggs, placing 4 on the Eastern Bluebird, discarding a rodent and placing one on the Purple Gallinule, activates the White-Crowned Sparrow and Yellow-Breasted Chat, moving them to the wetlands, and activating the Baird's Sparrow to lay an egg on itself.  Chris activates the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo to lay an egg on the Atlantic Puffin.
Christopher spends 1 seed, 1 invertebrate, and an egg from the Great Horned Owl to place a Canvasback in the wetlands habitat.
Dave lays eggs, spending 1 seeds to place 5 eggs on the Song Sparrow, activates the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird to take a rodent from the feeder.  Chris takes seeds.  Bill takes berries.  Christopher rerolls the dice and takes an invertebrate.  Dave activates the Grasshopper Sparrow to place an egg on the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird.  Bill uses the Bronzed Cowbird to lay an egg on the Chipping Sparrow.
Chris lays eggs, placing 1 each on the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo, Chihuahuan Ravan, Savannah Sparrow, Sprague's Pipit, and discarding a rodent to place on on the Great Egret, activates the Common Grackle to tuck a card and place an egg on it.
Bill spends 2 berries, 1 invertebrate, and 2 eggs from the Ruddy Duck to player the Hermit Thrush in the forest habitat.
Christopher gains food, taking 2 seeds and an invertebrate, activates the Common Nighthawk, moving it to the grassland habitat, activates the Great Horned Owl, drawing a Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker, which is tucked under the owl, activates the Blue Jay, but there are no seeds in the bird feeder, and activates the Carolina Chickadee, caching seeds on the card.  Chris activates the Turkey Vulture, gaining berries from the bird feeder.
Dave lays eggs, placing 4 on the Spotted Towhee, discarding berries to place 1 on the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, activates the Brewer's Blackbird to tuck a card behind it and lay an egg on the Cedar Waxwing, activates the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, rolling the dice and taking seeds from an invertebrate/seeds die.  Chris takes a rodent.  Bill takes an invertebrate from the invertebrate/seeds die.  Christopher takes an invertebrate.  Dave activates the Grasshopper Sparrow to place an egg on the Cedar Waxwing.  Chris activates the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo to lay an egg on the Common Grackle.  Bill activates the Bronzed Cowbird to lay an egg on the Hermit Thrush.

Round End

Dave, Chris, and Bill each have 5 or more eggs in cavity nests, Christopher has 3.

Final Scoring

Goals

Bill has the Visionary Leader goal, and gains 7VP from having 8 cards in hand.

Christopher has the Omnivore Expert, and gains 10VP from having 5 birds that eat anything.

Dave has the Fishery Manager and gains 3VP from having 2 birds that each fish.

Chris has the Enclosure Builder, gaining 4VP from having 4 birds with enclosure nest types, the Ecologist, gaining 4VP from having 2 birds in his least populated habitat, and the Cartographer, gaining 7VP for having at least 4 birds with geography terms in their names.

Final Score


Bill
Christopher
Dave
Chris
Birds
41
33
36
45
Bonus Cards
7
10
3
15
End of Round Goals
14
6
13
11
Eggs
15
3
27
14
Cached Food
0
5
0
2
Tucked Cards
1
3
3
3
Total
78
60
82
90

Congratulation to Chris Geggus on his victory!

End of Game Statements

Chris Geggus:  Really enjoyed the game. I know it is a little too solitaire for all tastes, but I think there are enough options to keep one on the ball. I actually misread my starting birds, so had to change tack fairly quickly, hence why too many cards in hand most of the game. However, gaining 2 additional Bonus cards was a nice benefit. Dave had some cracking combos which fortunately helped all of us as well during the game. Many ways to win suits my style of play, so more than keen to play again (even if we have to squeeze Kevin in). Thanks Chris and thanks all.

Bill Scharf:  Interesting game, I’d play it again. Lots of options to choose from, is there a “best” strategy, too soon to tell. Congratulations to Chris on his win, and thanks for running it.

Dave Hooton:  Congratulations to Chris G. on the win. Having two additional bonus cards certainly made a difference. Thanks to Chris H. on running it.

Christopher Hunt:  A good game.  Thanks to Chris H for running it and to Chris G for his victory.  Did not create an engine.  Lost track of how many moves there were.

Players

Name
Color
Cards in Hand
Bonus Cards
Seeds
Invertebrates Berries
Fish
Rodents
Bill Scharf
Purple
8
1
1
1
0
1
0
Christopher Hunt Green
3
1
3
3
0
0
0
Dave Hooton
Red
3
1
2
1
0
0
2
Chris Geggus
Yellow
4
3
0
1
1
0
1

Player in bold is first player for the round.

Round Goals
Bird Feeder
Birds

Bill

Bill

Christopher

Christopher

Dave

Dave

Chris

Chris