[Bristol-Birds] Fw: [TN-Bird] Jeff Wilson passing
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:21:34 -0500
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From: Kevin A. Calhoon
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Ray Zimmerman ; Harold Sharp
Sent: February 12, 2013 08:37
Subject: [TN-Bird] Jeff Wilson passing
I don't really know where to start. The very first time I met Jeff Wilson I
was new to Tennessee and I was on my first trip to the pits. I saw this guy
with a scope looking intently at something. His first words to me were "do you
want to see a Sharp-tailed Sandpiper!". Looking back from this moment I surely
wished I had spent more time in the field with him. I learned more about
birding, identification, passion for being in the field, than from anyone else.
His quotes are always in my head in the field "always bird to the horizon!";
"don't wear white, it does matter what you wear in the field!". I remember
what he wrote so eloquently when Lula Coffey died, that she was a Snow Egret,
next to her Great Blue Heron (her husband Ben). Well what is Jeff, I would
think some kind of windbird that he loved so much, maybe a American Golden
Plover, or a Sharp-tailed Sandpiper wondering thousands of miles. I already
miss him, his presence will always be at the pits, he will always be a legend!!
Kevin Calhoon
Assistant Curator of Forests
Tennessee Aquarium
423-785-4070
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