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GOS SPRING MEETING
Clayton, GA
16-18 May 2008
The Spring
2008 Meeting of the Georgia Ornithological Society will
be held in Clayton, Georgia, from Friday, May 16,
through Sunday, May 18, 2008. Our headquarters hotel
will be the Old Clayton Inn in Clayton. The registration
desk will open in the lobby of that hotel at 5:00 PM on
Friday, May 16, 2008.
Dinner on
Friday is on your own. The Friday night program will
begin at 7:30 PM and will be presented by Kirk Stodola,
recipient of our H. Branch Howe Graduate Research Grant,
who will give a presentation on his study of the
Black-throated Blue Warbler in the mountains of North
Georgia.
Field trip
destinations on Saturday and Sunday will include such
wonderful birding sites as Rabun Bald, Burrell’s Ford
Road, Hale Bridge Road, Brasstown Bald, Black Rock
Mountain State Park, Unicoi Gap and Ivy Log Gap Road. A
Field Trip Reservation Form is included with this
registration packet and field trips and box lunches
should be reserved in advance in order to get your first
or second choice.
The Social
Hour will begin Saturday night at 6:00 PM and the
banquet will start at 7:00 PM. Our featured speaker will
be Alan Tennant; author of “On the Wing, to the Edge of
the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon”. This is a
wonderful account of his experiences tracking a
radio-collared tundra subspecies of Peregrine Falcon
from the Texas barrier islands to the bird’s Arctic
breeding grounds in a dilapidated Cessna - with a
septuagenarian pilot at the controls!
Please plan
to join us in Clayton for what should be an exciting
weekend of birding and fellowship.
Meeting
Registration: Register for this meeting by mailing the
enclosed Registration Form to the GOS Treasurer, Jeannie
Wright (her address is on the form). The deadline for
receipt of meeting registration is May 6, 2008.
Please make
your own arrangements for lodging. Our official hotel is
The Old Clayton Inn in Clayton, 60 South Main Street,
Clayton, GA 30525, (706) 782-7722 or (800) 454-3498. The
room rate varies due to the fact that each room is
different. (The entire 30-room inn is being held for the
Georgia Ornithological Society until 3:00 PM on April
30, 2008). The more rooms we occupy for the meeting, the
higher the discount the hotel will give each of us on
our rooms. When making your reservation, identify
yourself as a member of GOS.
For
additional information regarding programs or field
trips, contact GOS 1st V.P. Bill Lotz (404) 261-1906, or
email
blotz@mindspring.com. For more information
concerning registration or lodging, contact GOS 2nd V.P.
Dan Vickers at (770) 235-7301, or email
dvickers@mindspring.com.
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