A noted passing

Ron Pittaway a prominent ornithologist famed for his winter finch forecasts as well as a head editor of the Ontario newsletters and gull expert for decades, passed away Monday at 76. Here's a link written by Tyler Hoar of a birding legend

https://finchnetwork.org/a-passing-of-a-legend

Here's a link to the finch forecast written by Ryan M.

https://www.audubon.org/news/the-man-behind-brilliant-winter-finch-forecast-passing-torch

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"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."
― F. Scott Fitzgerald