TN-Birders: As announced by TOS President Virginia Reynolds, the Alabama Ornithological Society has been extended an invitation on behalf of the TOS officers to hold a late-developing joint meeting with TOS at Cookeville, October 8-9-10. The AOS has received the invitation and President Bob Reed was very pleased that TOS had extended the offer of a joint meeting at this time. He has sent his board news of the invitation with an urgent reply request. Bob said he should be able to let us know Wednesday at the latest what the official reply will be. The invitation is extended to assist AOS because they lost their fall meeting access at Dauphin Island, AL due to Hurricane Ivan. TOS has logistics in place and will be able to handle the arrangements. Michael Rodell, TWRA State Ornithologist at Nashville, has been assisting with the communications. Rodell and Wallace Coffey will be available to assist Virginia Reynolds as needed to assure the meeting goes as well as possible if AOS is able to accept this invitaiton. TOS members owe a big thank you to our Virginia Reynolds for quikcly acting on the possible joint meeting, getting decisive action from our officers and immediately extending the invitation to AOS on behalf of our membership. Let's go birding.... Wallace Coffey Bristol, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================