Grand River Marsh Bird Quiz Mystery Cache
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Grand River Marsh Bird Quiz
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Team ChickaD are birdwatchers and have enjoyed driving around the roads through the Grand River Marsh and walking in the fields. There is a great variety of waterfowl, shorebirds, upland game birds, marsh birds and woodland birds that make this area their home or a stopping ground during migration.
Use the names of these birds to solve the quiz. "This Cache is NOT at the Coordinates Listed!"
Park in the Lot off of Hy H. Add any interesting bird sightings to your log!
Grand River Marsh Wildlife Area is a 7000 acre property located in SW Green Lake County and SE Marquette County near Lake Puckaway. This area consists of open marsh,emergent cattail wetland, upland prairie, oak savannah and wet meadows. Area Sportsman's clubs in the 1930's and 1940's wanted to turn this area into a wildlife refuge and land acquisition started in 1958. Water levels
are managed for quality waterfowl habitat.
The Wildlife area is open to hunting.
To solve this cache you need to fill in the names of some birds in the Grand River Marsh Area,using the common one word name of the bird.
Count the number of letters in the name of the bird
and follow directions to find the coordinates. If you don't know the birds, they are referred to in ChickaD's other bird series caches in the Grand River Marsh.
"This Cache is NOT at the Coordinates Listed!"
To solve: N 43 42.ABC
W 089 10.XYZ
A= The number of letters in the name of the following bird minus one ____________________________________________
The Great Blue variety of this long legged wader is common in wet areas of the Grand River Marsh
B= The number of letters in the name of the following
bird ________________________________________
This large black fish eating bird often perches in
trees.
C= The number of letters in the name of the following
bird minus 7 _________________________________________
This big billed, heavy bodied white bird is getting more common in the marsh
X= The number of letters in the name of the following
bird minus 5 _______________________________________
This flashy black and orange bird is in the black bird
family and makes a pendulous nest
Y= The number of letters in the name of the following
bird plus 5 _______________________________________
The blue-wing variety of this little duck nests in the
Grand River Marsh
Z= The number of letters in the name of the following
bird ___________________________________________________
This showy grassland bird is black and white and yellow
and perches high on blades of grass
Congrats to HideNSeeker on the First to Find!
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