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There are 4 half grown raccoons (2 pairs of siblings, each pair from different mothers) feeding togeather. Just listen to the first quarter of the file as there is dead air that I negleted to eliminate from the file.
Gives you a small idea what dinner at the commune sounds like. I'll try and get better sounds later:

http://tinyurl.com/8fdvv

Hopefully the link works.

Uh Chip? You need to get out of the country man. I think you are starting to go a bit stir crazy. The Shining seems to come to mind for some reason.

I concur. Woodi you're beginning to worry me cherub.

Yeah, I'd have to agree...

That's cool. A stereo microphone would sound a lot better, though.

Taking pictures of raccoons is one thing. Some of 'em were cute little buggers. but recording what it sounds like when they're eating?

This is like the beginning of some b-rated horror movie. Next thing you know, you'll be a crazy old hermit who waits to ambush unsuspecting hikers.

To feed to his Racoon family...

Kudos bro ... that is really cool. When I was younger I lived on the side of a mountain and the coons would come down to our back porch every evening to feed on bread and stuff we would leave for them. If we forgot about them they would scratch on the glass door until we came. My favorite one had lost one of his front legs ... we named him Tripod

sounds a bit like a dubious 70s pron soundtrack, but i wouldnt know about that sort of thing of coarse.

The sounds are not as cool as seeing them. I remeber walking in downtown naperville, there was all kinds of racoons. I saw 2 racoons climbing in out of garbage cans. It was those garbage cans in taco bell that you have to push open. So, you see them push it open and go in, and hear them move around, then you see little fingers pull the flap open. Then they climb out.
Clever little buggers

Naperville? as in Naperville, IL?

Speaking of critters, just yesterday we had a groundhog trapped in the basement window well. He's been with us since we moved in 16 years ago and why he wound up there in broad daylight is a mystery. Our neighbor had the idea of sticking in a spare shutter door he had so that the groundhog could climb himself out. So we left it overnight and the next morning he got out. But what was cool was that if you whistle to him he will whistle back!

Heh...to bad I didn't have the mike set up last night. The two families got at it worse than the Soprano's. Really viscious stuff. Heard one of the youngsters moaning up in one of the trees. Tonight I see why. The young'n had one of his eyes chewed up. Don't know if he'll be blind in that eye or not. He still let me get within a foot of him as he fed on the sunflower seeds I dished out.
One thing I should cleaqr up. Someone posted in my earlier raccoon post that a raccoon getting up on his back legs and spreading his front paws is some sort of attact posture. Not true. The stand up stance is more a inquisitive posture. Better able to smell and see a bit more. Attack posture is when a raccoon puts its head down low, raises it's hind end and growls. The hind end rises as the back legs are bunching up prepatory to a fast attack. If you have one do this while you are in its vicinity and the 'coon is facing you...get the heck out of Dodge like right now. I know for I am the Raccoon Whisperer

Doesn't the first Resident Evil storyline take place at a location called "Raccoon Junction"?

I do this type of found sound recording for recreation all the time. Good sounds. Man I wish I had my $2500 stereo sound recording setup to record those little guys

punisher wrote:Naperville? as in Naperville, IL?

Yes IL.
I live in Illinois

Coincidentally, my younger sister had to scare a raccoon out of the house several hours ago, after it ate all the cat food. The oversized rodent broke through the screen door to get out. Woodchip's spies resist capture by any means neccessary.

Any wounded/starving animal is totally unpredictable, no matter how often you are around it and how well you think you know it. Be very careful with wounded animals.

In all seriousness feeding wild animals can sometimes lead to disaster.

I live with wild kingdom literally on my doorsteps, both front and back. We have street deer.

These guys will strip a garden bare in no time flat.
They kill flowers and shrubbery before your very eyes.

Unless you hit them in the a** with a chunk of wood, they just ignore you.

They are car aware and pose for pictures.

During rut... males get aggressive. During birth, females get protective. Strangely these are the months that tourists seem to suffer the most injuries. Sharp hooves and hundreds of pounds of pure muscle makes short work of our pink skin.

We have grizzly, black bear, cougar, wolves, and coyotes, feasting on said deer, elk, pets, and people. For real. So here we, "Don't Feed the Wildlife".

I have a squirrel in my backyard that comes up to me on occasion to scope me out when I let him.

I don't feed him, however he hunts mice, insects, and throws down tons of rock hard green pinecones on my lawn, (have those shoot out from the lawnmower and whack yer shins) so that they eventually pop open and he can get at the seeds.

He scares off some of the biggest Ravens and Crows I've seen he's so territorial. I rather have one nattering squirrel wake me up in the morning than 5 Ravens and 25 Crows. He's doing fine at what he's doing so I leave him alone. Same goes with the rest of the critters.

Hey Woodchip, want to become a skunk whisperer? We've got plent of them out here. The last two days, they've been going on a spray frenzy. Its gotten so bad that I can't turn the dogs out in the back yard...which is where they're spraying.

During rut... males get aggressive

The rut is what?

hey just found out i have wildlive in my garden

i have toads

Birdseye wrote:

During rut... males get aggressive

The rut is what?

Well you see, Birdsy, when a male deer loves a female deer...

suicide eddie wrote:hey just found out i have wildlive in my garden

i have toads

Dude, we've got tree frogs and toads all OVER the place! See, I leave the outside lights on when I'm outside walking the dogs. When I come back, they're either up in the plants or on the lamp posts munching away on any bug stupid enough to land nearby. They don't even have to use their tongues! Lets just say theres plenty of fat toads around now. Theres also loooots of the little ones hopping around. Apparently the like red mulch alot as a den.