Wildlife
A lot of news stories have reported wildlife returning to cities and other normally-human-dominated areas where wildlife hadn’t been seen in decades, sometimes in broad daylight. I think these show just how resilient wildlife can be after humans have moved into their neighborhoods, and how easy it would be to bring back wildlife even to areas that many would “write off” as unusable by wildlife.
I myself have seen and heard a lot more wildlife, mostly birds, than I did before the pandemic. I’ve seen some deer, rabbits and a lot of squirrels too…but mostly birds. When I walk around the neighborhood, it seems like the wildlife is a lot less shy too. They still keep their distance, but instead of just scurrying or flying away from the scene, they eye me curiously while keeping just out of reach. I wonder if this is how things were in the 1840s, or if wildlife were even bolder toward humans at that time.
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