Outside of my office building in north Silver Spring/Calverton, there is a dead Pileated Woodpecker on the sidewalk.  Its red crest is pale and rather short, so perhaps this is a young bird?

I just went back outside to look at it more closely and there is no obvious (to me) cause of death.  If this were CSI: Crime Scene Investigation I would point out that it was lying beside a spotlight also lying on its side (usually sits upright on the ground, not up on the building.)  I have no idea whether the light was upright previously or not.

When I went outside just now to double-check it, I witnessed quite a skirmish between a Mockingbird and a Starling fighting a Crow so aggressively that the crow was losing feathers that floated down and landed next to the Pileated.

Dianne Aguilera

Silver Spring, Montgomery County (work)