Summer at last has settled in at the coast. Animal life that seemed disrupted and delayed by the long, late and relentless winter and harshly cold and windy spring has returned to normal, if late, activity. A few species clearly benefitted from the exceptionally wet two-year cycle. Earthworms and insect larvae were prolific with the continuous wet—December through March averaged 8 inches of rain each month. In response, mole populations and their surface tunneling increased…