My birding mentor, Mike Paul, passed a little over a year ago. True to
form, his birding partner of 40+ years told me that in the last couple of
years his life list had been catching up to Mikes. But now, he said, he
has them all and I will always be behind until we meet again. Here's to
all those whose life lists are absolutely complete, the effective saints of
the birding world, who still inspire those of us left on this spinning rock
to see the beauty that has been left to us.
On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 10:52 PM, HARRY FORBES <hforbes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Last week, the Texbirding community lost another one of its dedicated
birders....and I lost one of my best friends.
Ronny Moore, a retired NASA rocket scientist from Houston, was responsible
for getting me interested in birding almost 10 years ago. Since both of us
were retired by then, we had the time to pursue birds wherever they might
be found in the continental US....and covered literally thousands of miles
by car from one side of the US to the other in doing so....from CA to FL
and from TX to MN and many places in between.
Shortly after we returned from our FL trip in the spring of 2014, Ronny
was diagnosed with a rapidly progressing form of dementia. He lost the
battle last week and was laid to rest this afternoon at Osage Cemetery near
his birthplace of Clifton in central TX.
Since neither of us could hear the high frequencies any more, we needed
help wherever we went. For him....and for me....I'd like to thank the
following TX birders who were instrumental in whatever success we had:
Greg Lavaty/Jon McIntyre/Jack Chiles/Brady Surber (now deceased)/Carolyn
Stallwitz (now deceased)/Carolyn Ohl/Gil Eckrich/and Anthony Hewetson.
So many goodbyes.....and so few hellos......
Harry Forbes (San Antonio and Port Alto)
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