1:00 AM – Late night activity at the pool. A thirsty cat and raccoon.
First image from the new Trail Cam turns out to be one of our ubiquitous squirrels.
Tag Archives: Raccoon
Wednesday – 5.23.2018
1:00 AM – Another visit from one of the raccoons. He doesn’t find anything he likes in the platform feeder, and moves on.
Another Brown Thrasher bathing.
And a Thrasher eating. They really are very handsome birds.
Sunday – 5.6.2018
1:00 AM – Cardinal on the meal worm feeder, vivid red in the bright sun.
This Wren is trying to bath without actually getting into the water. He circles and dips a wing or tail feather in the water. At one point he hops off the bird bath and sits on the rail, preening. This performance went on for quite a while.
Raccoon makes unsuccessful midnight visit to the feeders.
Friday – 5.4.2018
1:00 AM – Typical Indigo Bunting hopping around the feeder.
Something new. Not just one raccoon, but two. At the end of the clip Raccoon One jumps down, revealing Raccoon Two behind him on the rail. The video is slowed down to give Raccoon Two more time on camera, for his/her video debut.
Here are the two raccoons from another angle, with Raccoon Two in the foreground. If you’ve never heard a raccoon drinking, this is your chance.
Thursday – 5.3.2018
1:00 AM – The rambunctious Indigo Buntings are quarreling with the Finches again. They’re outnumbered, but that doesn’t stop them from swaggering around like a pack of juvenile Bluebirds. (Juvenile Bluebirds can be very obnoxious and aggressive.)
A nice shot of an Indigo Bunting on the Squirrel Buster:
Just for a change, here’s a raccoon trying to get into the Squirrel Buster feeder. The Squirrel Busters really work, and the raccoon gets nothing there. But he does clean out the platform feeder. Oh well.
Saturday – 4.28.2018
1:00 AM – The Indigo Buntings are still around. We’ve got plenty of video which we’ll post over the next few days. We’ll start with this Bunting and a wet Cardinal. (They’re on a hanging feeder filled with a broken up compressed seed cylinder. It’s very popular with birds and squirrels).
A Cardinal at the cylinder feeder:
In case you wondered what’s up with the raccoon, we can say that they’re still around, but for some reason haven’t tried to get into the feeders lately.
Sunday – 1.28.2018
1:00 AM – One year ago today there was a lot going on in the Foodcourt. Here’s the webpage from that day:
Saturday – 1.28.2017
4:25 PM – It was windy today. The motion detectors on the cameras are sensitive enough to react to tree limbs and bushes moving around, so we got a lot of ‘false positives’ – videos with no birds in them. Actually, there weren’t that many birds around, at least not as many as usual. Here’s a Pine Warbler at the suet feeder:
And here’s a male and female Purple Finch at the platform feeder.
2:55 AM – The new Trail Cam caught ‘Rocky’ coming and going three times. Unfortunately, there’s about a two second delay in the camera starting to record, so we just see a glimpse of him coming up the path. We get a better view as he goes back home. Maybe his den is in the small thicket in the lower corner of the yard. This is more activity than I really expected, and I think we’re not seeing all of it. The last video shows him coming up the hill at 2:46 AM, but not coming down. I’m sure this trail isn’t the only path he uses.
Coming:
Going:
Tuesday 1.23.2018
4:02 AM – The Thicket Cam is a camera we installed at the lower part of our yard, in a stand of small trees and brush. We hope to capture video of critter that won’t/don’t come up on the deck. We don’t have the camera situated exactly right yet, but we did get this clip of a raccoon checking out the setup. More and better video to come.
Another unexpected Retro Video, but a good one. From July 9, 2017:
Thursday – 1.18.2018
3:07 AM – The Blue Jays have come back, probably because we’re putting out peanuts everyday. Here’s one stuffing nuts in his crop for later.
Short clip of a midnight raccoon scavenging up the leftover peanuts in the feeder. These cold nights can’t be pleasant for the little animal, but we’re not building a ‘raccoon house’, like a dog house. Probably.
Monday – 1.8.2018
4:08 AM – Busy time a the platform feeder. The sparrows get into a free-for-all, until a Bluebird comes along and runs them off. Note the sparrow that flies at the Bluebird. That’s bold behavior by the little bird.
When the water is frozen a good part of the day, and most of the night, the animals get thirsty. This raccoon is really lapping it up. Fortunately the cold snap is about over, and temps at night will be above freezing.