FreeLists / bristol-birds / [bristol-birds] Ol' Coot is here, BBC Banquet is Ready!!!

[Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The flight from Memphis to Tri-City Airport arrived at noon today,
bringing one of the South's best known and most active birders to
be the after-dinner speaker at the Bristol Bird Club's annual banquet.

A brisk reservation period, handled by our able treasurer, has seen
a heavy turnout for the evening  which will begin Friday (9/13) at the
Greenway Haven in Abingdon, Va at 7 p.m.

Birders across a nearly 300-mile area are head to Bristol to hear
Jeff Wilson, the long-time Memphis birder who is known throughout
the South for his wonderful contributions to birding, birders and 
an agressive and busy birder.  His posts on the old Valley Birds Net and
the Tennessee state birding network (TN-Birders) has long made
him the favorite of all subscribers.

Ol' Coot, as he is affectionately known, will be staying at the Garden
Plazza Hotel in Johnson City.

He is in Johnson City at his  friends' new house at this moment and
I have talked with him by phone.  He will  visit with them
this evening.  His annual list for Tennessee birds is sitting on a hefty 
284 for the year.  Since this might be his only chance to get the birds
from the mountains of East Tennessee, he is spreading himself thin
and will be running hard for year birds.  He would love to get six new
year birds in this area and go home with 300 annual species.

Friday morning he plans to go to Steele Creek Park where Kevin Hamed
will help him search for a Ruffed Grouse.  If he gets that species, he
will move on to South Holston Lake, go brinding with our 13th of the
Month fieldtrip and try for the Eared Grebe and birding around
South Holston Lake. 

Friday evening he'll be the speaker for a great crowd at the Bristol
Bird Club annual banquet.  

Saturday, he  will probably start at Roan Mountaint.  It looks like he'll
probably then head south into the Smokies on Sunday and then Monday.

He drive  back to Tri-City Airport Monday evening for a late flight home to
Memphis..

We are heading into a BBC Super Friday.

Wallace Coffey
Bristol

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