I spent a fantastic summer on Kent Island that so inspired me I went on to study storm petrels for my doctorate. Chuck was a true mentor in the most complete sense. I hardly know where to begin to sing his awesome praises. I was thrilled to see him again a few years ago and share a few words and memories.
When we arrived on Kent Island Chuck took me straight into the forest to check a petrel burrow that Chuck hoped contained Long John Silver a one legged petrel that Chuck had banded 37 years previously and monitored every year since. We knelt down and chick carefully lifted the piece of wood he had installed in the burrow to peak inside - and nothing! No bird! Chuck looked at me and said, well, maybe hebus out foraging or hasn't yet returned." I was a bit upset to be honest thinking I might be forever linked to the lose of this clearly beloved beloved petrel. But the next morning after a breakfast of scherring gull eggs that Chuck scrambled up for us (which were not very tasty to me), we found Chuck's beloved ancient petrel sitting in his nest! I was so relieved!
If not for Chuck I would not be living in Maine and would not have devoted my career to bird study.
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