The grass grows high some days in our front yard, and who jumped out right by my feet but a baby rabbit. I call him Bun bun. My husband Peter refers to him as Wilbur.
Our Annapolis neighborhood, a 20 minute walk from City Dock, is teaming with wildlife. Bunny rabbits skirt their way across the streets at dusk, families of mallard ducks select the secluded side yards of homes on the banks of Spa Creek to build their nests. A blue heron searches for breakfast at Old Woman’s Cove at daybreak, while squirrels busily dig up the spring bulbs I planted seeking nourishment for themselves and their babies.
Each morning leaving for my walk, I eye my one tomato plant with tomatoes (purchased at the Farmers’ Market) to check no one has been nibbling at its fruit. The leaves of my basil plant are mysteriously absent. But it’s in a pot, and I have no witness account of a creature sampling its minty flavor.
With such a large population of rabbits, it’s not surprising to also see a handsome red fox steathily walking about in the evening near Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts. Everyone has to eat. What’s next, coyottes? Has anyone seen any recently?
Nadja Maril, Writer & Author 
A coyote stalked my dog in the backyard of my parents’ house in Columbia. That was about two years ago. We called animal control and they told us “there are no coyotes in Columbia.”
A few weeks later there was an article in the paper about the increasing amounts of coyotes in central Maryland, thanks to development in Western MD, WV and PA.
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Frankly, the only wildlife I see in my neighborhood is the golfers behind our back yard.
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Rabbits, ducks, and birds of all varieties continue to flourish as summer officially begins.
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