[TN-Bird] TOS WINTER MEETING - Field Trips

Birders from across Tenneessee and surrounding states will converge on Dayton, 
TN Jan. 28-29-30 for the Tennessee Ornitholgicial Society's  2005 Annual Winter 
Meeting.  Field trips to two of the state's most significant rare bird 
wintering areas will be a major attraction.
The TOS welcomes all birders of all ages and all skill levels to participate in 
field trips scheduled Saturday and Sunday, departing at 8 a.m. from the parking 
lot of the meeting headquarters Best Western Dayton Hotel.
 
Field trips will be led each day to both the famous Hiwassee Refuge and the 
Smith Bend/Yuchi Refuge owned and managed by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources 
Agency.

This area, along the Tennessee River, is home to perhaps the world's largest 
concentration of cranes. At least one Whooping Crane and an estimated 10,000 
Sandhill Cranes are in the area.

The Smith Bend/Yuchi Refuge trip will be led on Saturday by Daniel Moss and the 
Hiwassee Refuge trip by Charlie Muise.  The leaders will swap areas on Sunday 
with Muise leading the Smith Bend/Yuchi Refuge trip and Moss leading the 
Hiwassee Refuge trip.

Daniel Moss, for those birders who may not personally know him,  
ia a native of Nashville.  He lives at Clarksville, and is a contract Wildlife 
Biologist at Fort Campbell in Montgomery Co.   He graduated with a major in 
Psychology from the Univeristy of Tennessee - Knoxville (BA) in 1984 and went 
back to get a BS in Biology from Murray State in 1996. Daniel  spent a couple 
of summers working for Dr. David Buehler (UT - Knoxville ) and Dr. Chuck 
Nicholson (TVA) on the Cerulean Warbler project in the Cumberland Mountains. 
Before that he assisted with bird research in Alaska, Costa Rica, Missouri, and 
South Carolina. He later studied under Dr. Buehler on a graduate project at 
Fort Campbell looking at the reproductive success of Henslow's Sparrows, 
Grasshopper Sparrows, and other grassland birds.  Daniel often contributes to 
TN-Birds Net.

Charlie Muise, lives at Maryville, TN.  He became interested in birds in 1992 
while studying under Dr. Dan Holliman at Birmingham Southern College. Charlie 
has lived in six states since then, and has been fortunate enough to live in 
such birding hotspots as the Chesapeake Bay, Cape Cod, Long Island, the Poconos 
and the Adirondacks. During the spring and summer of 2000 Charlie worked on a 
project to compare breeding rates of passerines in the driest county in 
Maryland to the wettest county in that state.  His job included searching for 
nests and running transect surveys.   He became Senior Teacher
Naturalist at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont in August 2000.  It 
was there he met his wife Tracey, who at the time was an active member in the 
Chattanooga Chapter of Tennessee Ornithological Society.  Their first date was 
a joint outing between that chapter
and the Knoxville Chapter, of which Charlie is now president. Charlie is also 
on the TOS state Conservation Policy Committee and chairs the TOS Conservation 
and Research Funding Committee.  His latest project is with the Tennessee 
Widlife Resources Agency, to create a Coordinated Bird Monitoring Plan for the 
state of Tennessee. While his first love was reptiles and amphibians, his 
favorite group of birds is the sparrows, and one of his most fortunate finds 
was a field just outside the national park where a number of species unsual to 
the area stopped during migration in 2000 and 2001.  Among the gems were 
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparow, LeConte's Sparrow, and hundreds of Savannah 
Sparrows.  Charlie is widely known to state birders as a frequent contributor 
to TN-Birds Net.

The TOS Annual Winter Meeting  welcomes college students, researchers, young 
birders, families, beginning birders, backyard birders, skilled and experienced 
birders and persons who have a conservation interest in Tennessee birds. You do 
not have to be a member of the Tennessee Ornithological Society in order to 
attend. No fee is required. 

Headquarters and Lodging: The meeting headquarters will be the Best Western 
Dayton Hotel. A special TOS rate has been established at $45.00 + tax for a 
Single, and $49.00 + tax for a Double. For reservations, call 1- 800-437-9604 
(Ask for TOS rate --you do not have to be a TOS member for the rate). The hotel 
address is Best Western Dayton 7835 Rhea Co. Hwy., U.S. 27 North Dayton, TN 
37321.

Directions: From I-75, Exit 40, TN State 30 West to US 27, then North on US 27 
to the hotel.

From I-40, Exit 347, U.S. Hwy 27 South to the hotel.

The 2005 TOS Winter Meeting is a jointly-sponsored effort by the Knoxville, 
Chattanooga. and Bristol chapters of TOS.

Don't miss visiting the TOS website at: 
http://www.tnbirds.org/Winter05-meeting.htm for more details and excellent maps 
of the areas.

Let's all go to Dayton. We have a tremendous effort invested and many wonderful 
presenters, leaders and more to come. We need everyone's support.

Let's go birding......

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN





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