Winchell Way as Wild Kingdom

My apartment complex is unusually full every spring with an odd assortment of animals. We have:
1- Racoons
2-squirrels
3-possums
4-a large cat that lives in the stairs of the buildings
5-3 ducks that live on Wellington Avenue and swim around in the puddles created in the potholes
6-deer (Annie and I were almostrun down by 5 or 6 while on a walk one day)
7- various toads and frogs that always seem to pop up right under my feet in the parking lot
8-swans in Asylum Lake
9- turtles, including Stumpy- the late turtle with no front arms and a recent addition of a huge snapping turtle that climbed up the stairs to lay eggs (for reasons I cannot begin to fathom) Unfortunately, I left the apartment while she was laying her eggs next to the steps and when I came back about 2 hours later some other animal had already come by and eaten all of her eggs. The shells are now a daily reminder of the precarious state of animal life.