I am growing more and more excited for the KOS fall meeting that we are hosting jointly with the Tennessee Ornithological Society in just 2 months on September 18–20!

I wanted to send out a note to mention that almost all of the rooms are booked up but the last thing I heard was that there were a handful of rooms still available at Lake Barkley SRP for the weekend. To make a reservation please call 1-270-924-1131, option 1, and give them the group code 3817.

Additionally, there are 11 lodge rooms and 13 cottages still available at KenLake. The Lodge rooms will be released to the public on August 18 and the cottages will be released on July 18, so if you want a cottage, be sure to call right away. The phone number and group code for the KenLake reservation is different: 1-270-474-2211 and provide group code 3076.

As a reminder, the meetings themselves will be happening at Lake Barkley but most of our lodging is booked at KenLake (and this is where we'll begin most of our field trips) which is a short drive away. We had to do this due to some construction ongoing at Lake Barkley.

These rooms are available to the first callers from KOS or TOS, so don't delay and book today!

Of course, if you miss out on a room (or would rather like to sleep under the stars like me), there is plenty of camping available at the state parks or in the LBL area.

More details on the trip to come soon.

I'm excited to announce that our KOS fall meeting this year will be a joint meeting alongside the Tennessee Ornithological Society!

We will be meeting at the Land Between the Lakes area on September 18-20. Due to ongoing construction at the parks, our meetings will take place at Lake Barkley State Resort Park and lodging will be a short drive away at KenLake Resort Park. There is plenty of camping all around as well.

If you plan to make a reservation at KenLake, cottage and lodge rooms are available ranging from $111-$143/night, plus taxes. To get our special rate, use group code 3076 when making a reservation. You may reserve online at this link or by calling (270) 474-2211. Reservations must be made by July 18th for cottages and August 18th for lodge rooms, but I would encourage you to make your reservations quickly because we anticipate this to be a well attended meeting. Also keep in mind that breakfast is not included in the room rate, but there are breakfast restaurants located on site, you may just want to plan on arriving there early for meals as it could be busy.

Most excitingly, our keynote speakers on both Friday and Saturday nights will be Cin-Ty Lee and Andrew Birch who co-authored two books: Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Empidonax and Pewees and Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus . If you haven't picked up these field guides, they are tremendously useful (the empidonax one for anywhere in the US and the kingbirds/myiarchus one to prepare for a rare vagrant to show up in your yard!). Cin-Ty and Andrew should teach us quite a bit and have us returning home from the weekend as better birders than when we arrived.

We are still working on details surrounding field trips, separate business meetings, and other aspects of the fall meeting, so check BirdKY.org for more details as they become available and I will also plan on sending out a reminder or two as we get closer to the fall meeting.