![]() ![]() People will protest his retirement because they’ve depended on his down-to-earth, no frills answers to their questions and commentary on the nature around us,” she wrote. “Thom Smith has added a unique touch to Berkshire journalism for about 45 years, give or take. Thom’s first editor, Ruth Bass, said she was sad but not surprised to learn of his retirement. But then, it happened, in April, an email arrived, announcing his retirement. Months earlier, following the retirements of longtime classical music columnist Andy Pincus and garden columnist Ron Kujawski, I joked with Thom that if he retired, I’d take it personally, that I couldn’t have all of the columnists retire after I was named The Eagle’s features editor. It was during the winter that Thom’s columns, which once arrived like clockwork, began to arrive in my inbox less frequently. The others were identified with the help of the Merlin app, powered by, both suggested by Thom either in his column or in one of our occasional phone conversations. I could identify a few that Thom talked about regularly in his columns and others I had seen in photos. My backyard feeder, that once only attracted grackles and starlings now had a variety of birds stopping by. This winter, after years of editing his NatureWatch column for The Berkshire Eagle, I decided to follow the advice he gave out quite regularly: I put out a birdseed that contained black oil sunflower seeds, millet and safflower seeds. ![]()
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