Serge:
>I thought there would have been lively exchanges between tweeters about
>each others guess, but that didn't happen...

They were too hard...

Here's some easy ones, name the bird:

"dark warning" is a?

"lame relative"?

"the card game at the city's outskirts"?

"..... quartz and a small Sierra naturalist"? (not easy)

"an icy corner"?

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>