[Bristol-Birds] Fw: BBC Xmas Party, Middlebrook meeting and Burke's Garden Fall Trip set
- From: soaringeaglez@xxxxxxxxx
- To: "BBC" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:37:04 +0000
Please note that the party at Michele's house will be held on Saturday,
December 5th. The theme is "bird brained" - decorate a hat with bird related
items for a chance to win a handmade birdhouse! Also, bring a dish to pass &
a.gift for the chinese auction!
Lisa Tyler
BBC President
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
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From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:05:03
To: Bristol-birds<bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Bristol-Birds] BBC Xmas Party, Middlebrook meeting and Burke's Garden
Fall Trip set
The Bristol Bird Club held its Nov 17, 2009 meeting
Tuesday, at the Bristol Public Library with
24 persons attending.
Members of the BBC will celebrate their
Sixteenth Annual Christmas Party Saturday, June 5,
at the home of Michele Sparks -- the same as
last year. She lives in Apple Valley just off TN Rt.
394 near Bristol Motor Speedway. The party
begins at 6 p.m.
Details and directions will be published
on the Bristol Birds Net in coming days. The
event is open and free to all birders and guests
without prior reservations. Children are welcome.
Jeremy Stout presented an entertaining and
educational talk with hands on activities regarding
"Bird Bones." He is the Steele Creek Park Nature
Center manager.
Wallace Coffey and Michele Sparks announced that
the BBC will be holding a meet and greet bird outing
Saturday, 21 Nov, at 9-12 a.m. with the Middlebrook
Homeowners Association. The event will be held
at the association's lakeside pool house located
at 162 Kingsbridge in the center of the neighborhood.
Directions to the location will follow in another post
to Bristol Birds Net.
The association, which represents about 140 property
owners at Middlebrook Lake, requested that BBC
join with them to watch the waterfowl, talk about
birds and birding in general and our club. They want
to learn more about birding at the lake and the
waterfowl that visit and winter there. Much of the
contact was established by Sparks assisted by Coffey.
The Middlebrook Homeowners Association will provide
hot coffee and bagels as refreshments. BBC members
are asked to bring their binoculars, scopes and bird
books. There will be no program or formal presentation.
The event will be at the pool house with field clothes
being appropriate dress. We hope there will be a good
turnout of BBC members to meet the neighbors and bird.
Tom Hunter will lead the Bristol Bird Club First Fall
Burke's Garden Golden Eagle field trip, Sun., 22 Nov.
Birders leaving from Bristol will meet at the lower
Piedmont Ave. parking lot of the Bristol Public Library
at 7 a.m. or at Hardee's in Tazewell, VA about 8:15 .
After a quick breakfast on your own at Hardee's the
group will leave to go up into Burke's Garden by 9 a.m.
The trip is to get an early-season survey of diurnal
raptors in the garden before our annual February
winter field trip which is scheduled to be led by
Dave Worley. Everyone is invited to attend this
Sunday's 22 Nov field trip. You may call Wallace
Coffey at 423-360-2532 for questions or directions.
The trip is free and open to the public. No reservations
required. Families with children are welcome.
The club was shown a beautiful earth-tone colored
golf shirt with embodied chest log which has been
recent purchased for members of the Buchanan County
Bird Club. The BBC will plan to offer a similar shirt
for warm season wear by early spring.
Announcements of a January planning meeting date
and location are in the making and details will follow
soon. It will also include striking a calendar of field
trips for 2010 and scheduling leaders for the trips.
Attending the November meeting were (those marked
with * turned out for dinner at the Mad Greek Restaurant
prior to the meeting): Janice Martin, Fred Martin, Diana
Worley, Victoria Hanson, Laverne Hunter*, Tom Hunter*,
John Hay*, Jeremy Stout, Roy Knispel*, Lisa Tyler*,
Michele Sparks*, Bill Grigsby*, Rick Knight*, Judy Roach*,
Mary Erwin*, Wallace Coffey*, Carolyn Coffey*, Wilma
Boy*, Nancy McPeak*, Mary Clark, Ruth Clark, Charles
Powell, Lois Cox and Dave Worley.
The BBC's next meeting will be held Tuesday, 15 Dec
2009, in the conference room of the Steele Creek Park
Lodge with the agenda dedicated to planning and
organizing the club sponsored Christ Bird Counts.
Let's go birding . . . .
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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