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<p>Devoted readers of this <em>Bay Journal</em> column — and they are legion — have no doubt noticed that the words “by Mike Burke” have been missing from the text for some time now. That is because, in early 2023, Mike began treatment for what turned out to be inoperable liver cancer, and we are heartsick to report that he died peacefully on Oct. 11 at Johns Hopkins Hospital, surrounded by family.</p><p>Born and raised in Loretto, PA, in the westernmost reaches of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, Mike came to the <em>Bay Journal</em> from a long career in environmental advocacy — as a Congressional staffer, then a Senate staffer, then a communications specialist for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program office.</p><div class="inline-asset inline-image layout-square subscriber-hide tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-left tnt-inline-width-one-third"><figure class="photo layout-square hover-expand letterbox-style-default"><span class="expand hidden-print"
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<p>Mike Burke was the popular author of the Chesapeake Bay Journal column, "On the Wing," from 2006 to 2023.</p>
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<div data-tnt-ads-tmp='{"vendor":"blox","type":"region","region":"fixed-big-ad-top-asset","id":"fixed-big-ad-top-asset","pos":"fixed-big-ad-top-asset, atf","fold":"above","include_domain":null,"size":"[300,250]","height":"250","width":"300","mobile":false,"js":{"video":"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/bayjournal.com\/content\/tncms\/live\/libraries\/flex\/components\/video\/resources\/scripts\/video.js?_dc=1564004435"},"overline":null,"index_slug":null,"url":"\/columns\/on_the_wing","refresh":false}' style="display:none;"></div><div id="tncms-region-article_instory_top" class="tncms-region hidden-print"></div><p>His first <em>On the Wing</em> column for the <em>Bay Journal</em> was published in February 2006. In it, he set the tone for the next 17 years of exploration of all things avian around the Chesapeake region. <a href="https://www.bayjournal.com/columns/on_the_wing/beginning-new-year-on-the-right-webbed-foot/article_24370415-b61e-5691-9e8e-2da24a19edc2.html" target="_blank">That inaugural column</a> was a lovely, richly colored recounting of a New Year’s Day visit to Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland, accompanied by his wife, Pat, to witness the breathtaking pre-dawn spectacle of thousands of snow geese rising all at once off an Eastern Shore pond.</p><p>“Sporadic wing flapping and honking made the whole pond seem alive,” he wrote. “And then — with a thunderous commotion — the flock took to its wings, rising off the water like a skein of brilliant white yarn unraveling itself against the rosy dawn. The noise was near-deafening, as raucous geese honked madly and beat their wings against the morning sky.”</p><p>With that first installment, he established the charming formula that made the column a must-read for anyone even faintly interested in birds. First he’d take the reader with him (and usually Pat; they were married 47 years) to a birdwatching spot — the Blackwater and Eastern Neck wildlife refuges, a lake near his Maryland home, public lands in Virginia and Pennsylvania, wherever his birdwatching passion took him. And he’d tell us the circumstances of the observation because he was a quintessential birder, and birders don’t just tell you that they saw a particular species; they tell you where they saw it, what it was doing, why it was there, where it had likely come from and how its feathers glistened in the slanting afternoon sun.</p><aside class="tncms-inline-relcontent tncms-inline-relcontent-quote"><h4>snow geese</h4><blockquote><p><span>"As the thousands of snow geese lifted in unison, for a moment our hearts soared with them. The New Year dawned with this simple recognition: Moments of unspeakable beauty are still possible."</span></p></blockquote></aside><p>From that engaging first-person opener, Mike would move on to a fulsome biological profile of the species in question: its physical attributes, habitat, diet, migration cycles, mating habits, nesting behavior — right down to the typical number of eggs per brood and when the baby birds would hatch and fledge. When relevant, he’d also include a history of the species: its population status, the threats against it, or how it had, for instance, bounced back from being hunted to the brink.</p><p>In that very first column, and often in the hundreds that followed, he would close with a philosophical turn, a glimpse into his own heart and a sense of what the experience meant to him. How it healed him or gave him hope, troubled him or strengthened him to fight on for birds and the environment in general.</p>
<div data-tnt-ads-tmp='{"vendor":"blox","type":"region","region":"fixed-big-ad-middle-asset","id":"fixed-big-ad-middle-asset","pos":"fixed-big-ad-middle-asset, stf","fold":"span","include_domain":null,"size":"[300,250]","height":"250","width":"300","mobile":false,"js":{"video":"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/bayjournal.com\/content\/tncms\/live\/libraries\/flex\/components\/video\/resources\/scripts\/video.js?_dc=1564004435"},"overline":null,"index_slug":null,"url":"\/columns\/on_the_wing","refresh":false}' style="display:none;"></div><div id="tncms-region-article_instory_middle" class="tncms-region hidden-print"></div><p>“As with many bird species,” he wrote, wrapping up the snow geese profile, “the full range of biology and behavior … is of interest to me. But on that magnificent morning, I wasn’t looking at those birds with a clinical eye. We had told family and friends that we were going birding. But a desire to see promise and hope and new beginnings was the real reason for our trip. As the thousands of snow geese lifted in unison, for a moment our hearts soared with them. The New Year dawned with this simple recognition: Moments of unspeakable beauty are still possible.”</p><p>As Mike’s primary editor for the last three years or so, I became intimately familiar with this formula — though I never saw it as formulaic. Rather, it was just smooth and steady and eminently navigable. Editing Mike was like taking a day off. That’s not to say I didn’t add a little polish or clarity here and there. But he was gentlemanly about that, thanking me when it was an improvement and gently but firmly pushing back when it was not.</p><aside class="tncms-inline-relcontent tncms-inline-relcontent-quote"><h4>sapsucker</h4><blockquote><p><span>"I am seated in a comfortable office, discussing events in the future. I am also in the American elm, dancing with a yellow-bellied sapsucker along the trunk."</span></p></blockquote></aside><p>But that was only the last three years, representing less than a fifth of Mike’s <em>Bay Journal</em> catalog of avian poetry. So, to prepare for this writing, I dove deep into the archives, and emerged with an aching sense of “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” Whatever the choice — <a href="https://www.bayjournal.com/columns/on_the_wing/window-provides-invitation-to-join-dance-of-the-sapsucker/article_75e7ae48-4d6b-59f4-ad3c-8441db3377a8.html" target="_blank">the yellow-bellied sapsucker in 2008</a>,<a href="https://www.bayjournal.com/columns/on_the_wing/barred-owls-silent-gaze-speaks-volumes/article_ba249bba-c6b8-5a4c-ba1d-c6fadd6b840b.html" target="_blank">the barred owl in 2011</a>, the <a href="https://www.bayjournal.com/columns/on_the_wing/black-vultures-nature-s-cleaning-service-soars-above-us/article_2ee0a816-1238-11eb-a53d-277feba2c755.html" target="_blank">black vulture in 2020</a> — the unassuming poetry and soul are always there.</p><p>Perhaps because I’m a newly minted stepfather, his closing observation on the red-eyed vireo in the June 2018 issue stayed with me after my perusal of the archives. The nests of red-eyed vireos, Mike pointed out, are for some reason a favorite target of the brown-headed cowbird’s infamous habit of brood parasitism — depositing their eggs in another species’ nest and leaving the parental duties to the involuntary adopters.</p><p>“As I thought about this odd dynamic, my mind went back to the diverse crowd circling [Lake Artemesia],” Mike wrote. “How many nannies were pushing other people’s children in strollers? How many adopted kids were riding bikes? How many blended families were out for a walk? … I realized that all a child needs is a family willing to ignore unimportant differences. That strange bond between cowbird and red-eyed vireo suddenly seemed not so strange after all.”</p><p>We feel immensely fortunate to have shared Mike’s knowledge and lyrical musings with our readers, and we will miss him greatly. Fair winds, Michael Francis Burke. May you eternally soar, on the wing, with the birds you loved.</p><aside class="tncms-inline-relcontent tncms-inline-relcontent-info"><h4>For more "On the Wing"</h4><p>Recent columns by Mike Burke, as well as several from guest columnist Alonso Abugattas, <a href="https://www.bayjournal.com/columns/on_the_wing/" target="_blank">can be found here.</a> To dig deeper into the many columns Mike wrote through the years, click on the search tool at the top of this page and enter "Mike Burke" into the search box.</p></aside>
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<p><p>Thank you for this beautiful tribute to a person who made enormous contributions to everything Chesapeake restoration as well as our humanity. For those of us lucky enough to work with Mike, we knew a steady, super smart and gentle yet determined colleague who always had kind and encouraging words. Mike will be so deeply missed.</p></p>
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<p><p>Thank you Tim. I had the honor of working with Mike Burke on a project many decades ago when we both worked at EPA. A true man, committed to environmental protection. I learned from him on how to sit around a table with people and try to reach agreement on local environmental issues. He showed me the beautiful areas on Eastern Shore VA where we were working. I believe he is flying with the birds now, in the place of rest. Thank you for your article.</p></p>
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