The winter 2016 TOS meeting will take place in McKinney, Texas from Thursday January 14 through Sunday January 17, 2016. Field trips are planned to 16 different locations/routes including CC trips covering 5 counties. Itineraries include Hagerman NWR, Lake Tawakoni, Lake Lewisville, the Heard Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary, Lake Lavon and several other area reservoirs. Winter birding in this portion of the blackland-prairie and cross-timbers regions around Dallas offers excellent opportunities for the study of waterfowl, gulls, raptors, sparrows and woodland birds. Winter specialty birds include Hairy and Red-headed Woodpeckers, White-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, and 15 species of sparrows including LeConte’s and Harris’s, and outside chances at Little Gull, Prairie Falcon and Smith’s Longspur. We have entertaining speakers for three evenings, afternoon workshops, a raffle, and a silent auction. We have a group room rate at the Hilton Garden Inn hotel with convenient access and all amenities. This meeting will be co-hosted by the Prairie and Timbers Audubon Society in McKinney. Members of PTAS have been hard at work planning an exciting meeting for attendees. Registration will be available online, but we will have volunteers available to assist by telephone if needed. Register and make your lodging reservations as you won’t want to miss this meeting. View schedule.
Meeting headquarters will be at the Hilton Garden Inn, 705 Central Expressway S (US 75), Allen, TX 75013, (214) 547-1700,hiltongardeninn1.hilton.com. From Dallas: US 75 north, exit 33/Bethany. All activities will be at this location and field trips will leave from here. Special TOS room rates are $95 King with Breakfast and $99 Two Queens with Breakfast, rate code “TOS”.
Detailed information about speakers, field trips, and other activities can be found in the Fall Newsletter. Hotel reservations can now be made by contacting the Hilton Garden Inn, above.
Online registration instructions:
- Please read all of these instructions before continuing to the registration page. We are using a new service called NEON for registration and payments.
- When you click on the registration link, select “Continue without logging in”. You will be given an opportunity to create your NEON account on the next page. You should use a login and password that you will remember, because this will be used for future TOS events.
- You may see the notation “you do not have a valid membership”. We are working this out. If you believe that your membership is current, don’t worry and register as a member.
- If you believe your membership has lapsed, or if you are joining for the first time, follow this link to the TOS website to pay your membership fee.
- You can register for yourself and your family, or yourself and your traveling companion, etc. all at the same time. The restriction is that they will all be paid for with the same credit card if paying online.
- Each step of the registration process generates an email receipt. If, after waiting a few minutes, you do not find your receipts, check your junk mail.
- When you have selected field trips for all three days, you may close your browser tab. You’re finished!
- Now you may follow this link to begin your registration.