We went for a few morning walks looking for tracks –
This spring we found a few tracks in our yard –
But none this summer.
This spring we saw Raccoons at the water’s edge. We were told that they clean the food that they eat. I, um, have no idea who misspelled Raccoon in the photo below. Dratted Zombies.
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The boys and I read a few books about Raccoons – We hadn’t thought about them eating Crawdads . . . Jon wrote a little story about how the crawdad might tease the Raccoon first. . . . .
While Nate draws the tale of an aggressive garbage eating 150 foot Raccoon that lives in the sewer. And leaves his tracks.
Named Steve.
Sigh.
How long is the Jr. High Season?
We learned that the raccoons are quite sneaky. They seem to leave more tracks in the morning than during the day. We talked to quite a few people who have left water next to the food to watch the raccoons wash their food. We have one friend that is considering Vaseline on their bird feeder pole. If you’d like to see how others spent the summer looking for Raccoons and Skunks – I invite you over to the Handbook of Nature Study @ Blogspot . com to see the other entries!
+Angie Wright
Pebblekeeper 
Funny creatures they are – I mean the boys, not the raccoons! 😉
Wonderful tracks you found. Big grins on the journal entries 🙂
Jr high morphs into Sr high and then you have goofy young men….it just seems to keep rolling on. Boys are like their very own species. (Love em)
Raccoons are sneaky. We had our cat food in a big plastic tub outside on the deck for a long time and then the raccoons started opening the tub and eating from it. S then we would bring the cat food inside but one night we forgot and left it outside. The raccoons took it and we didn’t find the tub until months later out back behind our shed, empty.
They really do help themselves.
I enjoyed your photos and your journals. Thanks so much for sharing your study.