White-winged crossbill is still present in Silver Spring, first appearing at 8:40am and periodically thereafter.  
   
  I've concluded after talking to a respected ornithologist that I work with, and after reading some opinions on this listserv, that the two woodcock heads and wing I found last week were almost certainly the work of a Peregrine falcon.  Perhaps it was catching woodcocks at dawn or dusk while they were displaying or migrating.  Wouldn't surprise me at all if the PEFA traveling long distances to forage.
   
  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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