In the morning we greeted our usual backyard squirrels, begging for peanuts at our backdoor. Then on a drive up the DVP, a lone groundhog stood sentinel in the grassy median just north of Spanbridge. In the forest of tall apartment buildings near Mel Lastman Square, a very young cottontail browsed on the grass just beside the sidewalk. Driving east on the 401, 2 deer were nestled on the slopes of Don Mills Road, taking in the late day sun. Then back in our backyard we saw a disabled mother raccoon (one paw is not usable) tending to 4 healthy looking young ones. A walk beside Bridgepoint Health led us to a cache of discarded muffins where two rats made repeated visits after determining that we were innocuous bystanders.
