Friday, 22 December 2017

[cobirds] RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER, El Paso County --- Please read

COBirders,

I am JUST the messenger and not trying to be the birding police.  Late this evening a gentleman from the Broadmoor stopped to see what was going on and to inform us that a permit is required to photograph any Broadmoor property.  Now, the bird was mostly on what is apparently private property but the Broadmoor does own property on both sides of the road.  The gentleman was not sure if that was their property or not but did not believe so.  However, when he was there the bird was most definitely on Broadmoor property (the gold course).

If you plan on going to see this bird and want to photograph it, just make sure not to point your cameras towards the Broadmoor without a permit.  You can obtain a permit at the front desk if you would like, that is found at the main entrance to the Broadmoor.  I did let them know that there may be a lot of people around tomorrow and he was going to inform security.

The bird did move around a bit, visiting at least five trees.  Two different pines (the Scot's Pine on the golf course) and three deciduous trees.  So if you are there and do not see the bird right away, I recommend just hanging out and watching and it will most likely fly to another tree where hopefully you see it.


Good luck and GREAT FIND DAVID!!!

Mark Peterson

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