The sense of loss following the passing of Steve Piotrowski has been felt not just by the Suffolk birding community but by many birders far beyond the county’s borders. Steve, with his boundless energy, his sense of fun, his infectious passion for wildlife and his impressive litany of achievements for birds and birders, was a force of nature; he got things done, and got them done on the grandest of scales, enhancing thousands of people’s lives along the way.