Hello, tweeters.

I've been asked to convey this news to the birding world.

Yesterday Kevin Li passed away. He was scuba diving in Puget Sound
and may have had a heart attack. He and Kris had just returned from
Hawaii, where they did a lot of snorkeling, and Kevin wanted to try
diving again after a 20-year hiatus.

Kevin pushed himself as hard as anyone I know, active outside
throughout the year in skiing and bicycling and kayaking and hiking
and windsurfing, and he always had a minor injury somewhere to attest
to those activities, but it never stopped him. He lived a good life.
More important, he was in every way a good person, as easy-going and
helpful as a friend as he was intense and focused on his interests.
While the rest of us were out there being edified by birds, Kevin
found a way he could return the favor. He was best known to most of
us through his unflagging efforts to provide nest boxes for Purple
Martins to get them to return to this region. He had help from many
others, but I think Kevin, by his enthusiasm and many hours of hard
work, can be single-handedly credited for turning around the decline
of that charismatic species.

His life should be an inspiration to all of us to give back to nature
just as it gives so much to us.

All of us who knew him will really miss Kevin, and the world will
miss him too.

Dennis Paulson

P. S. No further details are available at this time.