Soooo . . . we had been blaming the squirrels for the speed at which the bird feeders were emptying, but the other night DH happened to look out of the kitchen window and saw not one but THREE raccoons on the deck, two of them up on the railing stuffing themselves silly with sunflower seeds. They didn't even turn around when we knocked on the window. They barely seemed to notice when we switched the outside light on. One of them even came right up to the glass door and looked in - with the kids' faces pressed right up to the glass on the inside! Fortunately, even DH agreed that there is no way THESE animals are going to be hand-fed. They are too big, and potentially too dangerous. We were all tempted to open the door though because it was really difficult to get a good photo in such poor light from the other side of a window or glass door. This was the best of a bunch of photos:
Salt Box Houses
2 days ago
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Very cool photo! I have still yet to see a live "bandit"! My wife scared one off our porch and I've seen them as a roadkill, but that's it!
I have to bring my feeder inside at night to keep the raccoons from cleaning me out. Once the weather gets extremely cold, I can safely leave the feeder outside 24/7.
Until the weather gets extremely cold, I have to bring my bird feeder in at night to keep the raccoons from cleaning me out.
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