Yes, it's not an easy starting hand.
Food is a major problem for this starter, since we don't have any forest or food birds in the starting hand, with the exception of the Lincoln's sparrow.
There's the Woodpecker on the tray, but I wouldn't bet all my marbles on that, since we're not the first to play.
Personally, I'd go for Lincoln's sparrow only, invertebrate, seed, fruit and rodent. I'd rather keep the Backyard Birder bonus card because I already have a bird that meets the objective, but without much conviction. The main difficulty at the start of the game seems to be access to food, so I'm keeping as many as I can to have a chance of playing the birds I manage to pick. I'm keeping fruit and rodent because they're easier to use for the type of bird I'd ideally like to land (forest birds)
For the rest of the game, there are two ways to go depending on what my opponent does.
Plan A (best): my opponent doesn't take the Woodpecker. I take it and play it turn 1 & 2. A forest turn is needed to play my sparrow on turn 4 (potentially with 3 foods). By leaving an egg with the Woodpecker's power, I won't need a turn of grassland before drawing two birds on turn 5.
Plan B (more probable): my opponent takes the Woodpecker. I take the duck and play it (using whatever is least likely to be missed to play the Sparrow). My goal on this path is to have the ability to draw lot of birds, and be able to trade one bird for food in the forest (with the Sparrow), to play the good birds I may draw
