Today at the south tract of Patuxent NWR we saw:

Osprey (2) on a breeding platform
Common Loon (1) in breeding plumage near the dam
Rusty Blackbird (4)

...and pine warbler, field sparrow, brown thrasher, eastern towhee, tree swallow, and many other common species. Waterfowl diversity pretty low.  

Noah Kahn

Silver Spring, MD


"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?)