1:55 PM – More kinds of birds than I thought hit the suet feeder. The other day I saw a Carolina Chickadee, then yesterday another. Not as frequent a guest as the woodpeckers and nuthatches, but they put in an appearance every now and then.

4:50 AM – It was a big night for the raccoon. Here he is at the platform feeder on the deck:

Next, he climbs up the tree and gets into the suet feeder:

He figures out how to get the top off the feeder and get into the suet, but the camera only picks up glimpses of that. His next strategy is to slap the feeder around and knock pieces of suet out and onto the ground. He climbs down for a snack, the comes back up to repeat:

Now back up to shake the feeder again:

Finally, he knocks the feeder out of the tree onto the ground. I’m not sure why he ran away instead of eating the rest of the suet, maybe he thought the noise would alert us:

There was still suet left after ‘Rocky’s’ adventure. It’s possible he’d eaten his fill, after 20 minutes at the platform feeder, plus the suet he had for desert. But I think he just got spooked when the feeder fell.

As much as we enjoy watching him, we really don’t want him to visit. We were taking in the platform feeder at night, but since he stopped coming around, we let that slide. It looks like we’re going to have to resume that, plus bring in the suet as well.