[TN-Bird] TOS Spring Meeting, Thanks to Memphis chapter

The annual Spring Meeting of Tennessee Ornithological Society was held in  
the Memphis area over the weekend, April 25 to 27, and in my opinion the 
weekend 
 was a great success. TOS sends a big Thank You to all the Memphis chapter  
members who helped out leading field trips and taking care of the many  details 
involved in hosting a state meeting. 
Special thanks goes to Memphis chapt. president Dick Preston who was doing  
most of the "heavy lifting", being everywhere making sure things were running  
smoothly. Dick does things so well he got himself elected to another office:  
Congratulations to TOS president-elect Dick Preston!
 
Field trips went out Saturday and Sunday to various local birding sites,  
reports made on those separately. The Meeman Shelby Forest trip was well  
attended on Sat. and "the Pits" trip well attended on Sunday. One of the  most 
in
teresting trips was to the Raptor Center run by TOS member Knox  Martin.
 
The entire state was represented by TOS members attending,  with  the eastern 
end being lightly represented, understandable with the travel  distance and 
gas prices these days. Saturday afternoon the Board of  Directors met, with a 
quorum of voting members present, and conducted  much club business. Officers 
and Committees made their reports, and a few  motions were voted on. After 
details were presented by Finance chair Ron Hoff  and Treasurer Mac McWhirter 
one 
item of old business was concluded with the  passage of a motion to purchase 
liability insurance to cover TOS.  The  minutes of the entire meeting will be 
published to the TOS web site in a few  weeks and details of the meetings can 
be viewed there.
 
Another item of business was presentations by TWRA Region 3  information 
officer Dan Hicks on changes centering around the Hiwassee Refuge  festival and 
Sandhill Crane management in general. It wasn't exactly Daniel  in the Lions 
Den, but a lively discussion followed. I will report further on  these items 
and 
the TOS response in another post. We thank Dan Hicks  and Bruce Anderson for 
their time and effort attending our meeting and weekend. 
 
The Saturday night membership meeting was well attended. The food was good  
and fellowship was great! Our state being so spread out, its good to get  
together for some bonding time and see faces to put with names. We had an  
excellent speaker and program with Dave Ziolkowski coming from Patuxent 
Maryland  to 
report on the BBS, Breeding Surveys that many of us participate in. His  
program was very interesting to all of us and he was very complimentary of  
Tennessee's reputation in the birding community. He showed a long list of names 
 of TN 
BBS participants in 10+, 20+ and 30+ year categories. It was amazing that  
some so young... ;-) could have put in 30+ years birding already! Chuck N.  had 
to correct that his was 33 not 32 years on the job! 
 
We missed you if you were not there and hope to see you soon. Look for  
announcements of future meetings (Fall probably in Chattanooga and Spring 09  
probably in Nashville) and make plan to attend.
 
Thanks, and good birding,
 
 
RICHARD  CONNORS
TOS President '07-'09
603 Barrywood Dr.
Nashville TN  37220



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