1:00 AM – About 4:30 yesterday afternoon a squirrel knocked one of our RailCams into the flower bed.
That night, about 11:30PM, a curious raccoon found the camera, and checked it out – presumably to see if it was edible.
More action on the RailCam. We have another shot of a Blue Jay chowing down:
Here’s how Raccoons get up on the rail:
Here we see that shot from another angle. That Raccoon was ready for his close-up.
1:00 AM – A Pine Warbler, not intimidated by Mr. Cardinal:
Dainty Raccoon having midnight snack:
1:00 AM – Chickadee taking his/her time. We looked up the difference between male and female. While there certainly is one, it’s almost impossible to see it, unless you’re a Chickadee.
The ever-present Raccoon:
A Finch and Sparrow:
1:00 AM – Lots of traffic on the deck feeders recently, probably because we loaded the rails and feeders with peanuts. What bird could resist?
Lots of Raccoon traffic, too. One (or more) visited a 9:30 pm, 2:00 am and 3:30 am. During the last visit we were sitting inside, a few feet away. Raccoons didn’t care.
1:00 AM – Downy Woodpeckers like the new nugget feeder too.
Here’s a Raccoon checking out the new deck set up. He seems satisfied.
1:00 AM – We converted the water bowl on the deck to a platforms feeder (it’s intended use). The birds liked it, none so much as the Cardinals. And of course, the Squirrels.
For some reason this Raccoon wasn’t impressed with the new set up. Maybe the feed mix wasn’t to his liking. He didn’t have much luck with the Squirrel Buster feeder.
1:00 AM – An Eastern Phoebe. We haven’t seen one of these for a while. It’s probably a migrator from up north, but sometimes they do live year around in Alabama.
Exciting footage of a raccoon sabotaging our surveillance system.
1:00 AM – The new cylinder feeder has a lot of bugs and worms in it. This mixture seems to be popular with the Carolina Wren:
Also popular with the Raccoon, naturally. But the cylinder is covered with a plastic/nylon mesh, that lets bird beaks through, but frustrates the Raccoon.
1:00 AM – Mr. Cardinal having a leisurely meal.
From a few days ago when we let the water bowl get dry.
1:00 AM – Is it just my imagination, or is Mr. Raccoon putting on weight.
Another video of Mrs. Cardinal bathing. We see her in the bath a lot more than Mr. Cardinal.