Ferris Akel – Napping Raccoon
An evening pause: This is how many of us all feel at the end of a hard week. Music is the “Daydream” by the Lovin’ Spoonful.
Hat tip Ferris Akel, who filmed this on September 21, 2024.
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This was a lucky sighting, and very much unexpected. I hope you will all enjoy it as much as I did.
Ferris–
Checked out your YouTube channel, you have some great stuff!
I’m on the SW Michigan coastline; we have an incredibly number of Deer and Turkey wandering around.
Total tangent, in honor of the upcoming Holiday.
Contrary to WKRP In Cincinnati, turkeys can fly. Industrial franken-turkeys are barely alive, but the wild versions can fly, they roost in trees.
“Cincinnati, When the Turkeys Fell”
Thanksgiving 1978
https://youtu.be/4SXI-eLMq1E
4:47
wayne,
Thank you, very much, for the kind words! Truly appreciated!
Have a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Ferris-
Dude, you have like’ 1,500 videos…. Amazing!
(Your Pileated Woodpecker from 2016 is pretty cool!)
Do you have some sort of live-stream going on tonight?
Whoops,
->live-stream starting at Noon!
Rocky Racoon
Looked for a boon
What he found was
a hollow tree trunk
The tree it was said
Let him sleep like the dead
Unafraid
Of his rival
wayne,
Thanks again! I DID have a live stream today, as you noted. I am no bird watching expert, but I have been regularly live-streaming my bird watching efforts for more than 12 years. Sharing the birds, and anything else of interest, with others in real-time is truly a joy for me.
They are little trash pandas. Cut but pains in the can.
When I catch them trying to get into my trash cans I shoot them in the fanny with a pellet gun. It doesn’t penetrate but it does sting so they learn to stay away.
When they get larger that doesn’t even keep them away sometimes. They even attack.
Out comes a live trap and a can of cat food. A 5 mile drive out of town and let them go.
But watch they can carry rabies.
Blair-
Hilarious!
Rocky Raccoon (Take 8)
https://youtu.be/lRyfOY_KcPY
4:57
pzatchok–
If this guy disappears one day, we’ll know who ate him–
“Mobbed by Raccoons”
James Blackwood; The Raccoon Whisperer (Nov, 2020)
https://youtu.be/Ofp26_oc4CA
“I am a retired RCMP Officer living in a rural setting in Nova Scotia, Canada. I spend my time enjoying nature and feeding my furry friends, the raccoons.”
probably has rabies!
I live next to this city park. Almost 3000 achres inside the city.
https://www.millcreekmetroparks.org/mill-creek-park/
I have so much nature in my area its sick. Deer from the park walk my yard.
I love nature but sometimes it just gets to be a little much.