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Video: A masked intruder at the bird feeder

February 3, 2020 by FHC 2 Comments

by Marlene Berlin

Some lessons of the bird feeder: Birds definitely have a pecking order. Never bet against a determined squirrel. And birds and squirrels aren’t the only creatures interested in its contents.

A few nights ago, a mouse came to try its hand at getting seed out of the feeder. It did not hang around for very long before it took off. Then the raccoon appeared.

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For more than 30 minutes, it tried many different techniques.

The feeder is designed to slam shut under the weight of a squirrel, and that night I had it tied down to secure the seed inside. How the raccoon managed to get about a third of the seeds in the feeder is due to its dogged determination and ingenuity. The battle is on.

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Comments

  1. Pat Kasdan says

    February 3, 2020 at 11:48 am

    Too funny! Thanks for the racoon videos.

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  2. Emily Greenberg says

    February 5, 2020 at 11:52 am

    Oh, that’s so funny. My feeder is also design to shut with extra weight. But a few times I have found a pile of the seeds on the ground. I thought it was squirrels giving the feeder some hearty swings, but raccoons!?!

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