The Bristol Bird Club will hold its December meeting, Tuesday, 15 Dec. 2009, in the conference room at the Steele Creek Park Lodge in Bristol Tennessee at 7:30 p.m. The public is welcome whether or not you are a club member. The lodge will be ours from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. as needed.We will meet at the Mad Greek for a Dutch dinner at 6 p.m. and the meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. This is the annual planning meeting to determine parties on each of the four counts listed below which are sponsored by the Bristol Bird Club. Anyone who wishes to participate in any of the club's counts can make arrangements for the party you would like to participate in, the time and place the parties will meet to begin the counts. Since some counts get underway 19 Dec 2009, there will be persons present who will participate in those counts and can probably share information about how to participate in those. The four counts sponsored by the Bristol Bird Club are shown with an * and in boldface type below: Saturday, Dec 19, 2009 Breaks Interstate Park CBC Saturday, Dec 19, 2009 Buchanan County CBC Saturday, Dec 19, 2009 Elizabethton CBC Saturday, Dec 19, 2009 Glade Spring CBC * Saturday, Dec 19, 2009 Wise County CBC Sunday, Dec 20, 2009 Mount Rogers CBC Sunday, Dec 20, 2009 Roan Mountain CBC Saturday, Dec 26, 2009 Blackford (Russell Co.) CBC Sunday, Dec 27, 2009 Bristol CBC * Friday, Jan 1, 2010 Shady Valley / Mountain City CBC * Sunday, Jan 3, 2010 Kingsport CBC *