Easter in the wild

Eagles and raccoons badly use bunnies and eggs

In the interest of full disclosure, it must be mentioned at least in passing that wilderness creatures have their own way of celebrating the rebirth of the Easter season. A mother eagle may harvest an Easter bunny and his basket of treats to feed her young. And raccoons not from around here have been known to even eat the endangered eggs of loons.

These northwoods coons do not observe organizations like LoonWatch and their hard-fought preservation work, and marching to non-human drummers will relentlessly raid loons' nests for the precious eggs. We speculate that these rougher, closer to the bone raccoons neither have benefit of underground metropolitan sewer systems for higher education nor the food-gathering opportunities city gutters and yards provide.

We live in an imperfect world