[cobirds] Red Rocks Trading Post Seeding Project

Fellow CoBirders,

Since the middle of October, a team of dedicated volunteers from our community has been strategically placing seed at Red Rocks Trading Post (Jefferson County) to feed our local birds, and for the enjoyment of birders from up & down the Front Range, as well as many out of state visitors.

We are writing this evening to ask for your help in making sure that this can continue. No, we are not asking you for money, we are asking for your cooperation in not putting seed out unless you are part of the group (approved of by Park Management) that is currently implementing the project.

Volunteers have been seeding at Red Rocks for several years thanks to the efforts of Mike Henwood, Tom Bush, Gwen Moore, Mark Chavez and others. It is important for you to know that our ability to keep this project going can be taken away at any time. Had it not been for our friend Joe Roller's successful negotiations with Park Management about a year ago, we would not be able to be seeding today.

Over the past year, the City of Denver has transitioned the Trading Post from a gift shop to the Colorado Music Hall of Fame. With that change, new guidelines have been set out, mostly having to do with what we can put out and where we can put it. Keeping the area clean and not giving their full-time landscaper extra work cleaning up after us is high on their priority list. They have made it clear to us that if we do not abide by a few fairly simple requests, seeding will not continue. That being said, we have volunteers placing the right seed in the right places on a daily basis, and we have a volunteer cleaning up once a week.

Thanks for your support in ensuring that we can continue to provide a rich, diverse, easily accessible place to see a great variety of winter birds for a long time by not bringing your own seed when you visit Red Rocks.

If you would like to be a part of this rewarding project or if you have any questions, please let us know.

Good birding!

Tom Behnfield
2015/2016 Red Rocks Seeding Coordinator
behnfield@q.com
303-910-6858

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