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Originally Posted by Cyclefrance
... Have I misssed something, though, whereabouts are you with all that countryside around you?
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We are about 30 miles west of Denver Colorado, at an altitude of 7,800 feet. Denver, which is around 5,000 feet, is quite a bit warmer and dryer than we are.
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Originally Posted by Cyclefrance
... I caught that bit about the nuthatches. We regularly have blue tits...
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I was going to make some connection between snow shoveling and blue tits, but I decided that would be too rude.
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Originally Posted by Cyclefrance
... We do get a lot of woodpeckers arond here - usually the green variety - they can be seen in the summer when the ants are hatching from their nests in the soil as they spend a lot of time on the lawn feasting on the eggs and newly hatched ants swarming around below the lawn's surface.
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We have two kinds of woodpeckers that we regularly see. The
Flickers are the trouble makers, but they've mostly left us alone this year.