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Jericho Birder's Cache Mystery Cache

Hidden : 11/26/2009
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is not at the given coordinates, but is within 1 km. Solve the puzzle to find the cache!

Jericho park is one of my favourite places in Vancouver. It features a beach, some woods, some bunny-infested brambles, lots of grass to sit on, and a large pond. The park is home (or a temporary resting place) for many bird species. 90% of the photographs used in this puzzle were taken by myself in Jericho park.

Do you know your birding ALPHAbet?


Can you tell a TUVU from a BCCH?

puzzle

I have uploaded larger images of each of the birds to the gallery to help with identification, but the colour has become super-saturated in the process!

I want the challenge here to be identifying the birds, so I'm going to tell you exactly what to do once you've done that! To solve this puzzle you must:

  1. identify the birds;
  2. find their ALPHA code (NOTE: it has come to my attention that these codes are not as standard as I thought they were. Please use Birds of Boundary Bay as your source);
  3. select the letter of the alpha code according to the number displayed on the bird image eg. 3 means 3rd position letter on the 4 letter code;
  4. convert the letters to coordinates using the table below;
  5. check with geochecker.

FTF prize is a SuperSleuthySam FTF fridge magnet! Congratulations to Hollyburn and QuigleyJones for the FTF.

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.

If you keep getting an incorrect answer at Geochecker.com, feel free to send me your list of birds and I will be happy to tell you which are wrong.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pnpur vf va n cvyr bs fgbarf.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)