[TN-Bird] California birder visiting Chattanooga

From: Thomas Miko <thomas_miko@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:54:39 -0800

Hello!
 
     My employer is sending me to Chattanooga for a class from February 27th to 
March 2nd. I will be "stuck" in Chattanooga without a car. I am trying to talk 
my boss into buying a ticket so that I arrive Saturday night, instead of Sunday 
night, so that I would have Sunday to try to walk to some birding area within a 
reasonable distance of my hotel (the Holiday Inn Express on North Smith Road). 
This is a hard sell, because they want me to fly there, take the class, and fly 
back to LA.
 
     Among the potential lifebirds for me in that part of your state (I have 
never been to Tennessee) are Brown-headed Nuthatch, Red-headed Woodpecker, 
Carolina Wren, Carolina Chickadee, and Eastern Towhee. Birds that I have seen 
before, but would love to see again include Gray Catbird, Eastern Bluebird, 
Blue Jay, Pileated Woodpecker, Rusty Blackbird, Common Grackle etc. 
I get the impression that Chatanooga is a large enough city that bird habitat 
is restricted to parks or trails along the river, and that the suburbs probably 
have a lot of the same birds that we have in the LA suburbs (Mockingbird, House 
Finch, Starling etc).

     By the way, when I reserved my room over the phone, the lady at the hotel 
in Chattanooga said that you don't have a Super Shuttle type of company that 
charges people around $20 to get from the airport to a house, or hotel.  
 
     I am hoping that one of this list's members live in/near Chattanooga, 
knows the people teaching my class, and glows in the dark--wink, wink, nudge, 
nudge. 



Thomas Geza Miko, 

B.Sc. Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Radiaton & Lab Safety 
653 S. Indian Hill Blvd., unit C 

Claremont, CA 91711 
U.S.A.

Home: 909.445.1456
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