Our Masked Neighbor
The area of Arlington that Marc and I live in is quite green and woody, and as such, there’s quite a bit more wildlife than one would expect to find only 15 minutes from downtown DC. When I go walking in the woods nearby I frequently see rabbits, there’s a fox that lives near Marc’s family’s house (they’re only 3 minutes away), and the birds are impossible to sleep through in the mornings sometimes.
One critter that I didn’t think about, however, is the one animal that you do often find in areas that are woodsy but still have a high density of human settlement. The furball I speak of is the raccoon.
There are no less than three raccoons in the immediate vicinity of our apartment, it seems, and while we were sitting out on the patio a few nights ago, we had a somewhat amusing run-in with two of them. Marc wrote about it in a far more humorous way than I ever could, so I suggest you go read his account here: Close encounters with local wildlife…
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