Small thrush-like in Northern Colorado. Gray feathers but red iridescence on its head and chest so that it looks gray from the side and you see the color more the straighter-on you see it.
What bird could it be?
Could it be a house finch?
Or a juvenile American robin?
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Definitely not a robin. Not the house finch. The bird is solid gray and the red is prismatic - gray from the side and red from the front. Ill try to get a pic.
I don’t consider it all that thrush-like but the only non-hummingbird grayish (greenish-grayish-pinkish) bird with that kind of red structural iridescence in the face in NA that is coming to mind is the Lewis’s Woodpecker. They’re pretty unique as NA woodpeckers go.
If only we knew of an actual bird expert to ask…
(summoning @Colibri)
Maybe it is. The bird on the right looks close. The picture you linked to shows the bird from the side and on my bird no red is visible from that angle.
Greater Antillean Bullfinch (“Police Bird”)?
I think I confirmed it’s a house finch. This is it. Thanks themapleleaf.
Sounds likely to me.
That’s a nice image.