[Bristol-Birds] Rick Knight draws a near capacity crowd to March BBC Meeting

From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:42:03 -0400













Rick Knight draws a near capacity crowd to March BBC Meeting

Few seats were available by the time BBC member Rick Knight began to 
present his crowd-pleasing slide tour across the continent last night (Mar 16)
at the monthly meeting of the Bristol Bird Club.  It was a compilation
of photos made during several birding trips made over the years.  The scenes
of towering and gorgeous western mountain peaks and the birds found there
were rewarding to those who came. Knight's programs have long been a
favorite among birders of the region.

First V-P Dave Worley announced his appointment of a nominating committee
which will prepare a slate of officers to be presented at the April meeting.  An
election of officers will take place at the May meeting with the new slate 
taking
office at the club's July picnic.

The nominating committee will include three members:  Ellen Parker (chair),
Jennifer Kennedy and Michele Sparks.

Treasure Janice Martin reported that the club picnic will be held Saturday,
July 10, at the Steele Creek Park Civitan Shelter where it has been held
for many years.  Martin said the facility has been reserved.

More than a dozen persons have 
been appointed by Worley to 
serve on a BBC planning committee 
for the 2012 joint meeting of the 
Virginia Society of Ornithology and
the Tennessee Ornithological Society
to be hosted here by the BBC.  
Among those who will serve are:  
Rob Biller, John Hay, Laverne Hunter,  
Tom Hunter, Jennifer Kennedy, 
Rick Knight, Roy Knispel, Ellen Parker, 
Janice Martin, John Moyle, Michele Sparks and Dave Worley.  Knight will chair 
a sub-committee for field trips and will be assisted by Knispel, Tom Hunter and 
Moyle. Hunter and Worley will serve as liaison with the Virginia Society of 
Ornithology.  Martin will head up finances. Other appointments will be named
in coming months.

Linda Robinson of Bristol 
Tennessee was welcomed as 
a new member. She told the 
group how she recently became 
interested in birds.  She 
learned of the Bristol Bird Club when she picked up a club brochure at 
Mahoney's in Johnson City.

Neal Henson reported that he and his wife, Jean, had recently boated up
South Holston Lake and located the Avens Bridge area Bald Eagle nest
and saw an eagle on the nest.  Wallace Coffey said he had recently seen
two eagles in mating flight and clashing talons in the edge of Sullivan
County at South Holston Lake.  In a period of just two or three days,
Steve McClellan and Lola McClellan had an adult eagle on a rock at
their home on the South Fork Holston River and then Brookie Potter and
Jean Potter had a bird at Musick's Campground the next day and Coffey
saw the same bird later at the same location.  Efforts are underway to
try and locate a nest.  Worley said he had seen the eagle on the big
nest in Burkes Garden and saw one of the adults evidently turning an egg.
He gave directions to seeing the nest.

Dr. David Kirschke of 
Nashville, TN, who is with
the Tennessee Department
of Health, was in the
area and joined BBC members
at the Mad Greek and then
came to the meeting.  Kirschke 
was honored as the "Best New 
Birder of the Year" by BBC 
in 2007 when he lived in Northeast Tennessee. He is an MD and Medical 
Epidemiologist and worked with the Northeast Tennessee Regional Health 
Office of the Tennessee Department of Health.

Everyone was asked to save the date of Tuesday, April 20 -- the next
monthly meeting of BBC -- for the club's fourth Stephen M. Russell Graduate 
Lectureship.  It is awarded by the BBC to a Ph.D. candidate along with a
small financial award.  It is the first time the award as been 
extended to a student in several years.  The student lecture will be about
research of nesting Bald Eagles in Virginia and will be presented by a
graduate student of Virginia Tech who is working with the Center for 
Conservation and Biology at William & Mary College.

Attending Tuesday's BBC meeting were (* indicates dinner at the Mad
Greek Restaurant prior to the meeting):  Faye Wagers, Lois Cox, Wilma
Boy, Jo Ann Detta, Marty Huber, Dave Worley, Diana Worley, Janice
Martin, Ruth Clark, Mary Clark, Roy Knispel*, Linda Robinson, Ed Burke,
Don Leach, Jennifer Kennedy, Mike Poe, Michelle Villeneuve, Michele
Sparks, Charlie Powell, Wallace Coffey*, Carolyn Coffey*, John Hay,
Steve McClellan, Lola McClellan, Judy Roach*, Mary Erwin*, Jacki Hinshaw*, 
Rick Knight*, Jean Henson, Neal Henson, Ellen Parker, David Kirschke* 
and Rob Biller.
[Bristol-Birds] Rick Knight draws a near capacity crowd to March BBC Meeting

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