Sunday 30 March 2014

Wintersett - JOHN WINT


It is sad to report that John Wint died on Friday 28th March after losing his fourth battle with cancer.
John was one of the Wintersett stalwarts in the late 70s and early 80s, where he trained to become a ringer.  He ringed here for several years before work took him to another part of the country.  He returned to East Yorkshire and continued ringing and training new ringers.  He remained active, despite his illness, and he went on many ringing weeks to Spurn.   He was the President of the Yorkshire Naturalists Union for a period, and at present held the post of Vice Chairman.
He made a huge contribution to birding and will be greatly missed by all his friends and aquaintances.  I will post details of funeral arrangements as soon as they are finalised.
                             Pete Smith

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