I was very sorry to hear of Paul's passing.

I was mentored   under Paul Dumont as a teen birder from 1968 to 1971. I
then left for Montana were I got two degrees in Wildlife Biology, and birded
all over the US and NA and overseas. I worked on bears for the next 26 years
and was the supervisor of a S Florida Nature Center and birded almost every
day.

 

Three years ago when I came back to the Washington D.C. I heard of Paul, who
moved from Washington D.C. to Virginia. 

I first heard a lot about MOS as a youthful birder. I later joined because
of Paul. All those years I was an Auduboner from the local chapters in
Montana. 

Four of us birded from Hugh's Hollow to Hoboken NJ with Paul, who yes, even
back then, had a huge thermos eveready. I recall his car mounted Discoverer
Scope. I later brought 8 of those for burgeoning wildlife college Students
and for my older children because of Paul.

 

Whenever I bird down in D.C., now from Rockville, I think of my aching neck
and about 19 or twenty species of C and O Warblers and Paul Dumont and his
oversized thermos and Discoverer Scope and as said earlier encyclopedic view
of birds (like Phil, his father) and I smile.

 

Matt Reid

Rockville, MD