[texbirds] Re: Bob Sargent
- From: "L Markoff" <canyoneagle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>, "'texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <Texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 15:27:35 -0700
Just got back from camping off the grid in the Okanogan (Washington) so am
catching up. Bob touched many lives that is for sure. I met Bob and Martha
in 1998 (?) when they were the guest speakers at the Virginia Ornithological
Society meeting. Fortunately for me, they were staying with a friend of
mine during the meeting who invited me to join them for a little birding
after the meeting. Birding with them was a great learning experience in
numerous ways! They also invited me to visit them at their next banding
session at Fort Morgan, AL, so the following spring I took two of my kids
down there. Bob and Martha treated us like family and I have been a member
of their Hummer Bird Study Group ever since.
I told Bob about my friend who got thousands of Ruby-throated Hummers during
breeding season in Elkins, WV. Bob and Martha started banding there, as
well as training future banders at the site. My kids and I joined them for
one of the Elkins sessions and Bob let my son assist in the banding by
recording. That experience helped inspire my son to major in Biology (at
TAMUCC).
I could go on but I think you can tell that "Big Bad Bob", "the Bald One"
(as he called himself sometimes), or "Uncle Bob" as I liked to think of him,
was a special human who did so very much to help birds.
Love and peace to you, Bob.
Lori Markoff
Eugene, OR
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Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2014 3:14 PM
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Subject: [texbirds] Re: Bob Sargent
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I for sure did not know Bob well, only met him a few times. Great guy with
a good sense of humor. At one interface I asked him something in Rockport
and he said something like "Don't trust what I tell you, just refer to my
initialsf" It took a bit for that to sink in....I remember him letting a
lady hold a hummingbird he had just banded. As the the lady held the hummer
in her open palm, she totally broke down into steady tears at the wonder of
that small fleck of life being in her hand, to the point that Bob came
around the banding table to hug her tight..It brought us to near tears
seeing this lady so overwhelmed. I could well see the others there with very
restrained wet eyes...I won't any mention names, mine included......Bob
changed lives.
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Brush Freeman
503-551-5150 Cell
120 N. Red Bud Trail. Elgin, Tx. 78621
http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/
Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Kelly Bryan <kelly.b.bryan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would like to inform the Texbirds community that Bob Sargent passed
> away this morning at 2 am in Alabama from post-surgical complications.
> Bob had gall bladder and open heart surgery in June and seemed to be
> on the road to recovery when he was hit by a bacterial infection that
> blinded him. That and an aneurysm near his heart valve replacement
> discovered recently were his end.
> Bob left a legacy of hummingbird banders and lovers all across the US.
> This was especially true in Texas, a state that he loved dearly.
> Please join me is a personal moment of silence for Bob (except for a
> rubythroat chirping!). KBB
> --
> Kelly B Bryan
> Fort Davis, Texas
>
> To follow the progress of my hummingbird project go to:
> http://westtexashummingbirds.com/
> To support this project, other bird projects and our educational
> outreach in west Texas go to: http://www.westtexasavianresearch.org/
>
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