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Hi Eleanor;
I think you may be sending mixed messages to your
unwelcome visitor.
On the one hand, you're putting out bird feeders,
which the raccoon has assumed are for him (her?), and
then you're taking them away before he's finished!
This is the time of year when raccoons are "bulking
up" for winter.
Understanding the problem is still no solution. You
now have to decide what to do:
a) Take the feeders in much earlier; or
b) Leave a small pile of seeds for the raccoon a short
distance from the feeders.
I've found the raccoons around my place stopped
destroying my feeders when I left something on the
ground for them. They quickly identified "their"
feeding station.
A lot of people don't agree with this solution. I've
had dire warnings from neighbours and my own family
that if I give them an inch they'll take a mile!
But that didn't happen. I've had whole families of
raccoons on my deck waiting for supper in the spot
where I put dry cat food out for them - and leaving my
feeders alone.
Cheers;
Suzanne
--- Eleanor Lindsay <az678@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
> I am sure many of us can identify with the damage to
> Jim's feeders!
> After many such episodes of damage and loss I
> admitted defeat years ago
> and bring mine in every night. This winter however I
> am experiencing
> something I've never encountered before; a very
> large, well padded,
> healthy looking raccoon,with a beautiful, lustrous
> coat started
> appearing regularly at dusk when I went to take the
> feeders in and to my
> surprise began growling at me a few days ago when I
> did this. S(h)e has
> now started appearing before dusk to manhandle seeds
> out of the feeders
> - but now not only growls, it also lunges at me when
> I go out to rescue
> the feeders and doesn't back down when I make
> threatening noises and
> gestures at it, leaving me so uncomfortable that I
> am now reduced to
> taking a broom with me to keep it at bay ! A whack
> when it comes too
> close only deters it momentarily and it comes right
> back at me, growling
> ferociously and bighting the broom.
> All in all, quite intimidating. Any comments?
>
> Eleanor Lindsay,
> Seabright,
> St Margarets Bay
>
>
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