This is what I woke to the other morning — a raccoon managed to bend the iron bar with the ‘squirrel proof’ bird feeder and bring it down nearly to the ground (it usually hangs at the same level as the suet feeder in the upper right of this photo.) It also managed to get the lid off of the galvanized steel bucket that holds the feed — and bent the entire bucket so out of shape that the lid won’t fit anymore.
[Note: I say "it" not to deny its personhood, but because I don’t know if it’s a girl raccoon or a boy raccoon.]
It also left raccoon prints at my neighbor’s house/ building site — I’m glad for that, since I briefly feared it might have been a bear. We get bears in Missoula, but not generally this far into town.
Now I must come up with a more raccoon-proof feeding system. At least it did not get any of the pond goldfish.
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