Braingle: 'Bird Watching' Brain Teaser

Bird Watching

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Puzzle ID:	#20912
Fun:	(2.88)
Difficulty:	(1.02)
Category:	Trick
Submitted By:	ScarletCross

There are 100 birds on a tree. Using what method will you be able to capture them all in one shot?

Answer

Using a camera
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Comments

CoinMan Feb 09, 2005	a bit banal very boring and easy i hated it
cloud_strife Feb 09, 2005	Good one..
(user deleted) Feb 09, 2005	It needed more info to make it a bright idea!!!
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stormtrooper Feb 09, 2005	hmm. kind of old. How can 100 birds fit on a tree?
melanie9201 Feb 11, 2005	ummm...a gernade
Dave625 Feb 11, 2005	lol
2wheelspeedster Feb 14, 2005	nice on melanie9201.
2wheelspeedster Feb 14, 2005	one Sorry Typo
medabratt376 Feb 14, 2005	i thought about how could 100 birds fit in a tree then i thought about a net!!! it could work???
OD101890 Feb 14, 2005	I thought about cutting down the tree!
MrBasKetBall Feb 15, 2005	Too easy!!!
Tree Feb 17, 2005	I thought of a sawed off... but I'm from the south.
DevilKid Feb 20, 2005	100? That is a lot. How could they do that? Isn`t that imposible? I mean 100 birds could not fit in a tree. Could they?
marigold Feb 21, 2005	What? I didn't get that...
GIRIDARAN Mar 05, 2005	this seems to be easiest i saw in brainangle
froggygg Mar 23, 2005	Good but easy. By the way, medabratt376, on an old John Wayne movie "Hatari" they did just that to capture a huge tree full of birds-they shot a net over the entire tree and then went in and caught each bird one by one by one...
godess012 Mar 27, 2005	hey that one was cool... ill use it at work...
stevier316 Apr 15, 2005	Easy, but not bad
puppygirl1213 Jul 06, 2005	That was pretty good.
blca Jul 08, 2005	That was a sweet teaser! I didn't get it
deepsea Jul 31, 2005	fun n' easy good job
mrakesh Oct 20, 2005	too easy!!! but fun
smarty_blondy Oct 29, 2005	I was getting criminal here, and beginning to think of all sorts of military weapons. I fell for it, good job.
shannmo Nov 26, 2005	why is it so hard to beleive 100 birds could fit in a tree? a lot of small birds will fit in a large tree.
dude7 Dec 28, 2005	pulls out giant saw how about using this???
rkaaland Jan 08, 2006	Loved it!! A Camera!!! hahahah
Jay_ Feb 01, 2006	good 1
LeafFan4life May 28, 2007	pulls out grenade launcher how bout using this!
WCCope Feb 13, 2008	You can't just shoot them with a camera... you need a wide-angle lens.
(user deleted) Feb 27, 2008	DevilKid, stormtrooper, and everyone else who wonders how 100 birds could fit on a tree: i've seen some HUGE trees out there, you don't know how big this tree could be, so shut up... anyway, the grenade would work, but you don't really "shoot" a grenade, you throw it... anyway, great teaser!!
11171413 May 01, 2008	with 100 birds in a tree, i doubt they would all be showing, kinda hard to get them all with a camera then...
lgleaves Jun 10, 2008	I was thinking more along the lines of what medabratt376 said. Just use a net. Also, if there were 100 birds, it would have to be a HUMONGOUS tree to show all of them at the same time (which is needed for a camera shot).
doehead Aug 13, 2009	YUK YUK YUK
leroyleroy Aug 13, 2009	I THOUGHT OF SOME KIND OF A NET..BUT USING A CAMERA IS A FINE ANSWER;
auntiesis Aug 13, 2009	For some reason a camera popped into my head, but I like the answer that someone gave, a grenade. Very funny.
UptheHill Aug 13, 2009	HA, HA, HA!!!
(user deleted) Aug 13, 2009	tactical nukes
teri12265 Aug 13, 2009	Up around here there are big enough trees that lost their leaves around migratory times, so it is plausible. But the word "shot" gave it away. Why not just - how could you capture them all at once??? Good one, tho.
Grandpapete Aug 14, 2009	2EZ If you have never seen 100 birds in one tree you need more life history in California, either along the coast or up in the foothills.
dalfamnest Aug 14, 2009	Easy indeed but a little bit fun too. Who cares whether a tree can hold 100 birds - since when do these teasers have to be literal? Sometimes it's good to just get an answer quickly and feel a little superior.
bradon182001 Aug 14, 2009	Clever teaser I think. Thanks for posting.
chotpeper Aug 14, 2009	i had this one before i opened it up to read it full only thy forgot there is a backside to a tree that can block the pic. you would have to cut the branches off the back of the tree to get them all in one shot
ndltx5 Aug 14, 2009	birds aren't that big a 100 small birds could fit in a regular sized tree easily
tova_l Aug 16, 2009	very easy! but fun! ive heard this one b4
avonma Aug 18, 2009	I, too, remembered "Hatari," and the net shot over the tree. Then I noticed that it was a "trick" teaser; and went over it again, and realized one could take a "shot" with a camera, so I got it. Fun and fairly easy. Thanks!
cutebug Aug 13, 2012	Good one if your are 10 or younger, but way to easy for others.
mepapa Aug 13, 2012	If you go to austin tx during the grackle migration there are so many birds that often its hard to you see the tree and you DON'T walked under them of you value ... well ..anything! Nice easy teaser and fun comments.
Babe Aug 13, 2012	100 birds can easily sit in a tree. Did any one not see Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds?" However it was a pretty lame teaser.
thecatladycac Aug 13, 2012	My husband likes to take pictures of birds - so the answer came immediately to me. Also, I had a large tree in my fairly large back yard up in Illinois, and a hundred (at least) little birds would swoop down on the tree, sit there and tweet (sing) at 40 AM - I loved the music, even though I was still half-asleep! - Good teaser even though it was easy.