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| My Altitude iPhone app |
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Northern Flicker that taps on the roof above our bedroom was at it this morning - actually, more of a knock than a tap. I went outside to chase him away, and took my camera along in case I was able to sneak up on him from below when I came out of the sliding patio door. He was off in an instant, flying north to parts unknown. But as it turned out, there was a diversity of other birds on the ground, in the tree, and working away at the bird feeder. There must have been a half dozen
Cedar Waxwing working over the juniper berries on the tree beside our neighbor's house, a few
Red Breasted Nuthatch whose normal behavior is to grab a seed and then fly to a tree branch to break the seed open, several
American Robin flying in and out of the trees and not working the lawn for a meal, a
Dark-eyed Junco on the ground, a
House Sparrow at the finch feeder, and an
American Gold Finch in its winter brown coloration, looking more like some kind of sparrow than the bright yellow of summer.
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| Red-breasted Nuthatch |
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| Cedar Waxwing |
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| American Robin |
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| American Goldfinch (foreground) |
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| House Sparrow |
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My Altitude iPhone application has turned out to be a useful tool when traveling around mountainous Colorado when wanting to check out my elevation.
