Today in Wild Raleigh:

• A coyote ran across the greenway not twenty paces in front of me and yapped hoarsely from the brush until I’d passed.
• On a pond, three adult Canada Geese bullied four juvenile mallard ducks out of their way, making one paddle a wide hurried circle around them to rejoin his siblings.
• Walking out front at dusk I disturbed a rabbit with three babies in my front yard. The mother immediately hopped ten feet away to draw my attention away from the babies.
• My dogs slept all day on the couch.