My Iowa Commute

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

... Have I misssed something, though, whereabouts are you with all that countryside around you?

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.

Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

... I caught that bit about the nuthatches. We regularly have blue tits...

I was going to make some connection between snow shoveling and blue tits, but I decided that would be too rude.

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.

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.