[BBC-MEMBERS] Re: BBC meets Tuesday at Steele Creek Park with the Mendoat Hawk Watch as the program

  • From: jpmoyle18@xxxxxxx
  • To: bbc-members@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:10:33 -0400 (EDT)

Hi Wallace,  I will not be at the Tuesday meeting as Polly and I will be in Europe on a Mediterranean cruise.  This has been scheduled for a long time.  We also have been out of circulation for a while due to a hail storm that hit our house, causing $50,000 + dollars damage in late April.  I plan to get active again in BBC on our return from Europe.  Hope all is well with you and your's!  John Moyle



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From: Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: bbc-members <bbc-members@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, Aug 12, 2011 7:17 pm
Subject: [BBC-MEMBERS] BBC meets Tuesday at Steele Creek Park with the Mendoat Hawk Watch as the program

 
 
 
 
This is a leading reminder that BBC will hold its regularly
monthly meeting at the Steele Creek Park Lodge Conference
Room, Tuesday, August 18, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. (as needed)
 
The Bristol Public Library Meeting room has been scheduled
by the Library for one of their public programs.
Many members will gather at the Mad Greek Restaurant on
the Volunteer Parkway in Bristol Tennessee for a Dutch dinner
beginning at 6 p.m.  It is located about 2 miles north of the
Bristol Motor Speedway.
 
Tom Hunter will present the program about this fall's Mendota
Hawk Watch on Clinch Mountain west of Bristol Virginia.  Tom
is the coordinator of the annual watch which has been a
project of BBC for nearly 10 years.
 
Tom is going to have a PowerPoint presentation about why
there is an actual count of the birds and what makes Mendota
such a special watch site.  He will explain the how and why of
the migratory pathway there.  You will enjoy his tracing the history
of birders counting hawks there for 60 years.  You will be provided
directions and specific location information about and maybe other
former or present hawk watch sites in the region.  He will explain
the role and contribution that Mendota has with the Hawk Migration
Association of North America as well as the storage of data on
their national database.
 
Wallace Coffey and Dave Worley have been helping gather old
and recent photos for his talk as well as historical background.
 
BBC has been contacted by leaders of the Annual Hawk Migration
Festival which is sponsored each fall by Mendota residents in
that community to see if we wish to once again have a booth and
help with their festival.  We will talk about this at Tuesday's meeting.
 
I'll try to bring books about hawk watching to the meeting for those
of you who would like to see what is available.
 
 

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