[TN-Bird] Rooms scarce for TOS Winter Meeting

The Best Western, Dayton, TN headquarters for next weekend's Annual Winter 
Meeting of the Tennessee Ornithological Society is apparently full.
Late Friday, the reservation desk told birders that the motel has no rooms 
available.
I checked with the desk at 9 a.m. Saturday and was told the inn was full.

Dave Johnson of the Knoxville TOS Chapter, who is handling arrangements, said 
today that he checked with the clerk at Best Western at 10:00 AM this morning 
(Saturday) They "are almost fully booked."  The manager told the clerk they are 
going to give TOS 4 more rooms.  

The Mountain View Inn (owned by the same company that owns the Best Western) 
which is across the parking lot from the Best Westeren headquarters, is  
comparable and Johnson says they have 16 rooms available at the same rate.  The 
phone number at the Mountain View Inn is 423-775-9190. 

There is also a Days Inn in town about two miles south.   That facility is 
believed to have a capacity of 25 rooms but we have no idea how many rooms have 
been reserved. 

The TOS Annual Winter Meeting is set for January 28-29-30, 2005 at Dayton. The 
meeting is being jointly coordinated by members of the Knoxville, Chattanooga, 
and Bristol chapters of TOS.

Field trips to two of the state's most significant rare bird wintering areas 
will be a major attraction. Field trips will be led Jan. 29 and Jan. 30 to both 
the famous Hiwassee Refuge and the Smith Bend/Yuchi Refuge owned and managed by 
the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

A Whooping Crane was still there Friday and approximately 10,000 Sandhill 
Cranes are wintering in the apprxoimate 10-mile stretch of the Tennessee River.

The largest delegation of Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency's nongame 
managers to every attend a TOS meeting will be on hand to talk about the new 
state wildlife plan and how it will affect birds.  In addition, an official of 
the famous Operation Migration crane restoration project of Canada will be on 
hand.

Let's go birding....

Wallace Coffey
Tennessee Ornithological Society
Bristol, TN






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