Noah,
   Sounds like the work of a Peregrine. Years ago when I was working in Baltimore I began finding body parts and whitewash around the State Office Building. It didn't take long to discover that one of the Peregrines from downtown had taken up roosting on the building. Most of the body parts I found were heads and wings. One time there was a mostly intact Flicker carcass that had the meat neatly carved out. Most of the birds represented were those with plumper bodies. Most common were Robins, Woodcock, Flickers, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, even Sora and Meadowlark. All were migrants, mostly fall, but also in spring.
   I believe there have been recent reports of a Peregrine in Silver Spring. Watch for it.

--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD 


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From: Noah Kahn <> 

> Perhaps of morbid interest to some; walking away from the METRO station last 
> night in Silver Spring, MD, I found 2 severed woodcock heads on the sidewalk. 
> There was also 1 intact wing, but no bodies, feathers, blood, etc. Could be the 
> handiwork of a passing raptor, but very odd that there were 2 heads. 
> 
> Noah Kahn 
> Silver Spring, MD 
> 
> 
> Noah Kahn 
> 
> "There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot...like 
> winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do 
> away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of 
> living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. For us of the 
> minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and 
> the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech." 
> Aldo Leopold (who else?) 
> 
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