[Bristol-Birds] BBC soup 'n sparrows, fellowship, birding a darn good time !!!!

From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:20:10 -0500















 Bristol Bird Club members drove thru fog and over long distances 
 Saturday in order to make the 8:30 a.m. walk off of the club's third
 annual Soup 'n Sparrow field trip at the South Holston Weir Dam.

 Rick Knight, as always, was the leader of another great birdwalk as
 the group hiked the trail around Osceola Island between the weirs 
 in the South Fork Holston River.

 Despite the nippy weather, the sun was out from start to finish and
 everyone had a great time.  A few were on their first ever field trip
 with the BBC but most had been there and done that down thru the
 ages.

 As the 11 o'clock hour drew near, the birders rushed for their cars and
 were among the very first in line at the South Holston Ruritan clubhouse
 for their annual Bean and Soup Supper fundraiser which helps send 
 high school students on their way with college scholarships.

 The next hour was mouth watering with dozens of sassy soups, stews
 and chili servings.  Birders promised to be on the front row again in
 2013 for next year's event and several promised their spouses would
 be there after they returned home with an accounting of the delicious
 food, including cakes, drinks and everything you can imagine for just
 $6.00.

 Some thought the bear chili was a little this or a little that but others
 loved the delightful sweetness of elk chili.  Shrimp scampi was killer
 good.  Venison chili was a vicious delight.  Cabbage stew, potatoes
 and vegetable soups beyond your imagination.

 We hustled back and forth to the long and crazy tables with hundreds
 of slices of cakes that had such wild names and weird ingredients 
 you would have had to had a notepad to remember.  

 Birders chowing down and carving out moments of memories.

 Knight took the group to Washington County Park in Virginia where
 Mike Sanders demonstrated the automated camera systems which
 have been watching feeders or nearly two months and captured more
 than 30 photographs of Brown-headed Nuthatches.  Then he unlocked
 the gate to the closed and secured portion of the park and we all rode
 down to the lakeshore to see where a research camera is watching
 over a roadkill deer carcass in order to try and get an estimate of
 Bald Eagles wintering in the Spring Creek Embayment.

 Then Rick took birders to Musick's Campground to continue the fieldtrip.

 What a great day to share with birding friends and a pleasant way to
 enjoy a Saturday morning birding in January !

 Participants included: Carolyn Coffey, Wallace Coffey, John Hay,
 Jacki Hinshaw, Sheri Hiter, John Kelly, David Kirschke, Rick Knight,
 Roy Knispel, Roger Lemaster, Fred Martin, Janice Martin, Mike Sanders,
 Michele Sparks, Faye Wagers, Patricia Wagers, Gail Williams, Dave
 Worley and Diana Worley.























 Let's go birding and chowing again . . ..

 Wallace Coffey
 Bristol, TN
[Bristol-Birds] BBC soup 'n sparrows, fellowship, birding a darn good time !!!!

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