Deepest Sympathy to Meg and family. I was shocked to hear this. I’ve been retired since 2008, but worked with Tony for a many years. He will truly be missed.

My Heartfelt condolences to the Bledsoe family. Tony was true gentleman and a joy to be around. He is definitely gone too soon!

I took as many of Dr. Bledsoe’s classes as I could when I was a student at Pitt, and wish I could have taken many more. His passion for the material, for teaching, and for helping his students was always evident. As a bird lover myself, I tried to absorb every bit of bird knowledge I could from him, but he was and endless well of information and enthusiasm for the natural world. I am now a science teacher myself, and I have always thought of him as one of my main inspirations. He had an entertaining example ready to illuminate any possible concept and he wanted to remove barriers between himself and his students—he preferred to go by “Tony” and encouraged us to call his personal number with questions if we ever needed to. Recently I had been thinking of getting in touch with him to thank him again, and I regret that I did not do so in time. My sincere condolences to his family. He will be missed but fondly remembered.

My sympathy on your enormous loss. For many years Tony gave talks to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute here at Pitt and his love for the falcons inspired us all. I can still see Tony fending off Dorothy during the bird bandings and he always took time to patiently explain all of my falcon questions, His classes were always enormous and I never heard anyone imitate birds the way he did. OLLI at Pitt will miss him.