[Bristol-Birds] Tom Hunter entertains crowd at BBC annual banquet
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:39:59 -0400
Tom Hunter entertains crowd at BBC annual banquet
Club member Tom Hunter gave an excellent talk and visual presentation to
a gathering of 40 birders at the Bristol Bird Club's annual banquet
held Friday night. He talked about birding in Ecuador.
The meal of chicken stuffed with dressing along with wild rice and gravy,
roast beef, side dishes and dessert was delicious and plentiful.
Club treasurer Janice Martin was presented with
a gorgeous photo of a molting female Northern
Cardinal. It was taken as an award-winning
photo by Bert Hale who also had it custom
framed at Dollar General.
Dr. John Moyle, who leads the BBC Rainforest
Adventure program of international field trips,
discussed the next trip which is being planned
for Peru and the Amazon during 2010. It will
be the third such trip.
Past BBC President Dave Worley conducting door prizes for the
group. The Worley and Martins have been the cornerstones of BBC
door prizes for banquets and Christmas parties for more than a decade.
Our young birds were with us tonight with
Steele Creek Park Nature Center naturalist
Charlie Parker at the far left. Chris O'Bryan,
an under graduate research assistant in biology
at Austin Peay State University, driving all
afternoon from Clarksville (northwest of
Nashville) to be on hand for the banquet.
Former BBC treasure Lloyd Jones, minister at the Addilyn Memorial
United Methodist Church, arranged for the banquet to be hosted for
by the ladies of the church for the second year.
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