Evening Visitors

Friday night I had a visit from one of the raccoon babies ALL grown up.  The raccoons visit almost every night, but it's a rare visit when It's still light enough to get pictures!  (To see this one as a youngster, check out my 'Success!!' post.)

This guy had discovered the cat food put out by my neighbor for their cat, Tigger.  Most of his attention though was kept on the feral cats who were on my patio and had just finished eating THEIR dinner.

 

Since the cats had just eaten, they weren't interested in the raccoon's 'dinner', but the raccoon wasn't taking any chances.

After having a snack (the raccoon didn't even eat all the food that was in the dish), the raccoon started to come over to check out what food was left on my patio.  But seeing it was outnumbered by the cats must have changed its mind.

The raccoon retired to the tree in my back yard.  Can you see its face peeking out between the leaves in the center of the picture?

Just after the raccoon left, one of my favorite little woodchucks showed up.  This one is lighter in color than the others and seems to get picked on all the time.  Sometimes if I see it's eating, I'll run interference for it.  The other woodchucks will almost always take off when I open the door and step outside.  This one sticks around and will let me get pretty close to it.  It may not realize my good intentions, but probably notices the others take off when I'm around.

Referring to the way all the critters seem to get along, my next-door neighbor commented the other day that it's like a Disney movie around here.  I wouldn't have it any other way!  And this raccoon is ready for his close-up!