My wife reports 2 peregrine falcons flying around downtown Silver Spring today.  She can watch them out her 6th story window.  Over the last 14 months, we've found 3 woodcock heads on the downtown sidewalks (and we don't walk there too often). 
 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?)