The big feeder is empty today. I assume that most of the food is part of our growing phalanx of flying squirrels and raccoons. The rest of it is all over the deck. The raccoons have hands and reach inside the feeder and pull out huge clumps of seeds.
You can almost see the whole squirrel!
Gliding in for a landing on the central post
Gliding squirrel folding up his “wings”
Sitting on the rail, pondering the food banks
The camera took another 1020 pictures the other night. I think this may be its maximum number, but maybe it needs a bigger SD card. I deleted about 700 of them and will probably delete another 100 or more, but I got some interesting flying squirrel pictures and some entertaining raccoon photos.
Ever busy, the raccoon did seeds from the feeder
Oh the joy of seeds
You can almost see these little ones growing each time I take their pictures
It’s sunny with floating clouds today. It’s the first sun we’ve had in a week and it is supposed to rain again tomorrow. Not our best week but rumor has it that it will be better next week.
Categories: Flying squirrels, Marilyn Armstrong, Photography
Those raccoons are too cute, and they look very young. You’re really going to have to start a wildlife sanctuary out of all of this. Maybe you can raise money by opening a petting zoo…
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I wouldn’t pet those guys. They are wild. They just like our seeds. I love the way they shove those little paws into the feeders and grab pawsful of seeds, dropping half of them on the deck. Well, THEY don’t have to clean up!
These are babies. In a few months, they are going to be a whole lot bigger! Longer tails, darker masks, more striping on their fluffier tails.
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We’ve had cold weather, low single digits that made snow possible. Suddenly we went to 9 10 degrees and crisp. A bit of sun for a couple of days and now wet and rainy. Our little black squirrels are making their presence known, delightfully as they sit perched on the fence or smirk from a branch that has the cats chasing or mewing and the dog barking ecstatically. We built a bonfire the other night which was enjoyable and found out as soon as we posted pictures that the CITY isn’t allowing them or any fires and it’s still I won’t say spring, it doesn’t feel like it yet. Provincially no ban. Who knew. Fun while it lasted.
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It has been cold. Warmer today, but so far, it has been a very chilly and very WET spring. But to be fair, this is how spring usually is around here. It doesn’t feel like spring until at the earliest, mid-April. Since I’m home all the time anyway, I can wait.
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True enough! The first two years here were the hottest on record. Last year was more as it usually is. Wonder what this year will bring.
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I guess some of these folks are coming out of hibernation?
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I don’t know why my comments show up in the wrong places, but read downward. I do answer, but WP puts replies in strange locations. And none of these animals hibernate. They are all “year-rounders.”
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Ravenous creatures, eh?
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Awfully hungry. But they are also getting fat so maybe they just love the food.
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The weather is such that they animals will be able to forage for food on their own….
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The problem is that the raccoons, deprived of their food, can get very destructive. I’d prefer to feed them!
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Do they bite the hand that feeds them?
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Only if you offer them your fingers!
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They’re holding you ransom…
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Yes. They are. And I’m sure they do not care.
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I suspect just enjoying food without effort.
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I don’t know why my comments show up in the wrong places, but read downward. I do answer, but WP puts replies in strange locations.
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WP is completely disorganized….
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And it keeps getting worse.
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I wonder what will happen if you don’t refill the feeder? Will they come knocking on you door for food!
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In the past, they tore down and destroyed the feeders. I’m sure they’d do it again and frankly, I can’t afford to keep replacing them. Raccoons are very destructive if they get annoyed. They want food. If we give it to them we will all do better.
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They seem to be ungrateful and demanding.
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Yes. They are raccoons, among the most intelligent and demanding woodland creatures to hit our deck.
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🦨
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And aren’t we glad that skunks can’t climb?
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Sure are.
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“I hear ya knockin’…but ya can’t come in…”
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That’s the right response. 👍
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I get such a kick out of the raccoons. Who knew there was a party at the Armstrong’s every night?!
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These are young ones, too. I can see them growing as they raid the feeders.At least we don’t have a gang of really big ones,
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