[Bristol-Birds] BBC has excellent turnout, program at ETSU Bristol
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:57:20 -0500
The Bristol Bird Club was in great form Tuesday evening with a nice turnout and
a good program about breeding Magnolia Warbler research at Unaka Mountain in
Northeast Tennessee by Kevin Elam of Steele Creek Park Nature Center.
Again we had twenty-six (26) birders attended the meeting with 14 at the Mad
Greek for our pre-meeting dinner. The fellowship dinner continues to be a nice
highlight of the evening.
It was reported that 14 birders associated with the Bristol Bird Club attended
the TOS Annual Winter Meeting at Dayton, TN. Wallace Coffey invited field trip
leaders and organized the field trips for the event. Rack Cross coordinate the
field trips to Yuchi Willdlife Management Area and Hiwassee Wildlife Management
Area. BBC was a co-sponsoring club that helped organize, promote and conduct
the winter meeting along with the Knoxville TOS and the Chattanooga TOS
chapters. BBC was responsible for the field trips.
Rick Knight and Dave Worley will be birding in Costa Rico March 3-15. It will
be Rick's third year there and Dave's second. Dave Worley and Wallace Coffey
will fly to Minnesota Friday afternoon and bird until Monday evening with Andy
Jones to see the massive invasion of boreal owls in the Duluth area. Some
2,000 Great Gray Owls have been present along with a much lesser but
significant number of Northern Hawk-Owls and Boreal Owls. Many other fine
northern species may be found. One day, Andy Jones and three other associates,
observed 226 Great Gray Owls in one day, possibly the greates number in a day
in ornithological history. The Great Gray Owl is the largest of North American
Owls. It mainly nests in the boreal forest of central and western Canada.
BBC voted to purchase another 150 pounds of sunflower seed to replenish the
supply at the Steele Creek Park Nature Center. Rack Cross will purchase it
from Ward's Seed Store in Kingsport and deliver it to the nature center. Bill
Grigsby reported that Ward's was very interested in sponsoring a bird seed sale
with us early next December to raise funds for BBC's many good projects.
Don Holt reported he had made arrangements with the state ornithologist of the
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to get a shipment of 2,000 new field cards
of Tennessee birds sent to us. They were shipped Tuesday by TWRA.
Don will get them distributed to the bird clubs of Upper East Tennessee and
birders as soon as possible. The new cards will be yellow, the list order
revised back to the A.O.U. Check-list order and the number of species expanded.
Rick Knight hopes to revise and publish "The Birds of Northeast Tennessee"
again in 2005. The first edition appeared in May 1994. Coffey estimated it
might cost between $1,500 and $2,000 to print the publication. BBC funded and
printed the 1994 edition as well as "Bird Study in Shady Valley," "Birds of
Smyth County" and Dick Peak's "Birds of the Virginia Cumberland."
President Rack Cross proposed the sale of shade grown coffee by our club as a
conservation effort for bird habitat in Central and South America. He also had
videos and calendars to raise money for the Operation Migration whooping crane
reintroduction program.
Cross announced that our bird club would have a woodcock field trip to Shady
Valley this Saturday and will be joined by members of the Herndon TOS chapter.
Janice Martin will lead the trip and Rack will get with her to post details on
Bristol-birds Net.
Bill Grigsby reported that details have been worked out with the Virginia State
Parks for us to lead public field trips and camp the weekend of May 13-15 at
Natural Tunnel State Park. He also reported on the progress of our proposed
development at Meadowview Marsh Wetlands in Kingsport in cooperation with the
Eastman Chemical Company.
Wallace Coffey said Beverly Brown, an environmental resource specialist with
the Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation, Dept. of Water
Pollution Control has visited the Cedar Creek Marsh Wetlands in Bristol
Tennessee and recommended a deliniation of the wetlands be done in connection
with the Bristol Bird Club's proposal of the site as a new city park for
Bristol Tennessee. The mayor gave the BBC the green light to begin exploring
the project. We asked Carl Moore, owner, to donate the wetlands to the city
for a park. He has been very supportive and has asked us for a proposal.
Working with the city engineers, BBC came up with an initial area of about 7.5
acres for the project. But the state resource specialist suggested the area
may be much larger and we needed a professional deliniation. Kevin Hamed, who
has been helping BBC with the project, has secured the free services of the
Tennessee Valley Authority to do the study. Moore agreed on Feb. 10 to allow
TVA to come on the property to conduct the study. Hamed has contacted TVA to
have the study put on their calendar. We may propose a significantly larger
wetlands park and wildlife habitat.
Attending Tuesday night's BBC meeting were ( * indicates those having dinner at
the Mad Greek):
* Dianne Draper, Jonesborough, TN
* Don Holt, Johnson City, TN
* Reece Jamerson, Johnson City, TN
* Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN
* John Hay, Kingsport, TN
* Wilma Boy, Bluff City, TN
* Judy Roach, Kingsport, TN
* Chris O'Bryan, Piney Flats, TN
* Charlie Parker, Piney Flats, TN
* Ellen Parker, Piney Flats, TN
* Rick Knight, Johnson City, TN
* Larry McDaniel, Johnson City, TN
* Bill Grigsby, Kingsport, TN
* Mary Jane Erwin, Kingsport, TN
Mike Poe, Blountville, TN
Pat McFarlane, Bristol, VA
Nancy Necessary, Bristol, VA
Nora Schubert, Johnson City, TN
Mahalia Schubert, Johnson City, TN
Diana Worley, Rosedale, VA
Dave Worley, Rosedale, VA
Ed Burke, Bristol, TN
Kevin Elam, Bristol, TN
Rack Cross, Blountville, TN
Dexter Newman, Johnson City, TN
Lynda Newman, Johnson City, TN
As a side note, Treasurer Jancie Martin told Coffey last Thursday that the BBC
has paid the first of two installments of our $250 pledge to the ETSU-Bristol
Foundation fund raising campaign. We pledge $125 in January and an equal
amount in mid-summer.
Lots of members have now paid their 2005 dues. If you have not, then you should
send your check to Treasurer Janice Martin as soon as possible.
Let's go birding......
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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