Imagine Our Surprise Being surrounded on two sides by our rivers, old Sacramento neighborhoods really are, natural urban wildlife preserves. I have lived in the country and I have lived in the city and have seen more wildlife in Southside Park, a dozen blocks from the State Capital, than anywhere else I have lived. Last year an Osprey visited our small pond for a day or so, and high up in one of the Sycamores on 5th Street, a pair of hawks, raised a nest of young’uns this year. Everyone on our block watched them in wonder and awe. Later as the tree leafed out it was mostly the sound of the parents as they screeched in with food that told us of their continuing presence. We worried every w