FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] BBC Dec. Meeting Tuesday 7:30 Steele Creek Park

["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Bristol Bird Club's monthly meeting will be held Tuesday (Dec. 21) at 7:30 
p.m. at Bristol Tennessee's Steele Creek Park lodge across the driveway and 
parking  lot from the park nature center. 
Prior to the meeting at the park, many birders will gather for dinner at 6:00 
p.m. (on your own) at the Mad Greek Restaurant on the Volunteer Parkway in 
Bristol, TN.   We have good turnouts for dinner.  It is a great opportunity to 
get to know other birders and get caught up on all that is going on.

The December meeting program is concerned with detailed planning of our three 
BBC sponsored Chriristmas Bird Counts.  We present spreadsheets on the various 
counts, maps, create field parties, designate leaders, set meeting places and 
times for field parties and make whatever arrangements as needed.

If you have never participated in a Christmas Bird Count, you are welcome to 
come and learn more about counts and, if you wish, be included with a field 
party for the count(s) of your choice.   You need no special birding skills to 
participate. 

The BBC sponosred counts include:

Bristol TN-VA CBC, Sunday, Dec. 26 (Compiled by Richard Lewis)

Shady Valley-Mountain City, TN CBC, Saturday,  Jan. 1 (Compiled by Rob Biller)

Glade Spring, VA CBC, Sunday,  Jan 2 (Compiled by Ron Harrington).


More than 2,000 counts and 45,000 birders will participate in the 105th year of 
the count. It is the oldest continuous wildlife survey in North America. 

The first Christmas Bird Counts were conducted in 1900 in response to a 
suggestion made in the National Audubon Society's magazine Bird-Lore. 

The Bristol CBC was first conducted in 1931.
The Glade Spring CBC was first conducted in 1955.
The Shady Valley-Mountain City CBC was first conducted 1996.

The region high record number of species is 89 on the Bristol CBC in 1998.

More information about CBCs available at: 
http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/birds/cbc.html#intro

See you Tuesday evening.......

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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