There is actually a division of urban fauna here in NYC.

We have a falcon that comes to hunt in our grounds for squirrels. Thing #1 even took pictures --you could hear it crunching on the bones ... YUCK! Sometimes it hunts at night and you can hear the squirrels squeaking as it gets killed ... Urgh!

Last year I saw an opposum on 23rd Street. People were freaking out, worried that it would cross the street and get killed.

We even had a wolf in central park --although I didn't get to see it.

There's the geese and the seagulls and the bluebirds too. And I did see once what looked like a woodpecker, I swear!

So really, I'm not that much of a weenie. I just think that eatine a smelly carcass off the road is gross.

Of course the kids heard the story and thought it was the coolest thing they've ever heard.