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