Today's NYT Strands hints and answersCredit: New York TimesLooking for Wednesdays Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:Strands, Wordle, Connections, the Crosswordso many games yet so little time! And some of these can be tricky. Indeed, todays Strands is quite the puzzle! If this one doesnt stump you, bravo!Strands is the newest game in the New York Times stable of puzzle games. Its a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day were given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the days theme.Spoilers ahead.Todays Strands HintsRead on for todays theme and some hints to help you uncover todays words. Instead of giving you the first two letters of each word, today Im giving out three hints instead of two.Todays Theme: Wetland patrolHint: AvianClue: The spangram starts at the bottom and goes up.Play Puzzles & Games on ForbesHere are the first two letters of each of todays words:BISPSTEGIBFLWARemember, spoilers ahead!What Are Todays Strands Answers?Todays spangram is: WADINGBIRDHeres the full list of words:BITTERNSPOONBILLSTORKEGRETIBISFLAMINGOHeres the completed Strands grid:Today's StrandsScreenshot: Erik KainTodays Strands BreakdownThis was a very challenging Strands mostly because some of these birds are either obscure or tricky to spell. BITTERN? EGRET? SPOONBILL? These are daunting words to uncover! I also selected WADINGBIRDS with the S before trying the singular. I suppose this will be a pretty easy puzzle for bird-watchers, at least . . . .How did you do on your Strands today? Let me know on Twitter and Facebook.Be sure to check out my blog for my daily Wordle guides as well as all my other writing about TV shows, streaming guides, movie reviews, video game coverage and much more. Thanks for stopping by!