David thanks for informing us.  I met Bob in Dec.1970 in a park in 
Phoenix.  We were both fairly new at birding then.  We keep in touch and 
birded together every time I made it down to Phoenix.  In 1977, Bob & I 
drove from Phoenix to Florida birding,  We had such a great time.  If you 
see the family give them my regards.  

Van Truan
Pueblo

On Thursday, July 17, 2014 10:37:17 AM UTC-6, David Waltman wrote:
>
> Bob Bradley died in Grand Junction on 16 July after a brief illness.  He 
> was 89.  Most of his adult life was spent in Phoenix, but he and his wife 
> Ann moved to Grand Junction several years ago where Bob was active in 
> birding.  He was an important contributor to birding for many years and in 
> many ways.  One of those ways was as compiler or co-compiler of the Greater 
> Phoenix CBC for twenty years.  In February and September of 1996 Bob took 
> me to the great birding places in SE Arizona.  I'll never forget the sight 
> of four Aztec Thrush flying in to feed on Virginia Creeper berries in 
> Miller Canyon.  And a Banded Rock Rattlesnake at the same spot!  That was 
> the great gift to me that kindled my passion for birding.  Bob's birding 
> contributions and accomplishments  are impressive and too numerous to 
> mention here.  I always admired his huge ABA-area and Arizona lists because 
> so much of that was accomplished long ago before modern field guides, the 
> internet and cell phones have made it somewhat easier.  Bob said, "If 
> birding were easy, it wouldn't be any fun."  Maricopa Audubon honored Bob 
> at a banquet in 2000 and presented him with a Roger Tory Peterson painting 
> of Peregrine Falcons.  Bob and Ann traveled the world extensively, and he 
> reached his seventh continent, Antarctica, two years ago with son Jon.  
> Daughter Jennifer's notification of Bob's death was headlined "gone 
> birding."  What a nice thought.
> Bob was my cousin.
> David Waltman
> Boulder
>

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