Volume 15 , Issue 15

Raccoon Diner Special: Peanut Butter Balloons Go "POP"

It was 12 April 2013, that we set the "Raccoon Diner Special" with Balloons smeared with peanut butter, around 9pm, MDT. That same evening a couple of raccoon made their rounds at 11:48pm (12 April 2013), and a short visited at 12-midnight (13 April 2013). Also, we noticed visits at 12:54am and 12:58am, with at least one of the raccoons making sniffings at balloons, while walking around the stump where the balloons were tied down.



Mainly the two raccoons stayed near the back hanging feeder near the creek, gobbling up the seeds underneath. It was not until 1:48am that the raccoons returned to do more investigating. At 1:49am a brave raccoon could not resist the smell of the peanut butter coated balloons. The first balloon pops at 1:49am, MDT, 13 April 2013.

There was a short visit back at 2 o'clock am. Then nothing until 5:12am, MDT, by one lone raccoon. Was it the same one from 1:49am? But ... it seems he had a hankering for the last peanut butter smeared balloon.

At 5:16am MDT, the raccoon finally made his way from the back feeder to the stump area and made a counter-clockwise circle around the last balloon on the menu. He grabs the Peanut Butter smeared Balloon in both hands.

You know the rest of the story ... POP goes the balloon. But that did not seem to deter the raccoon. He kept eating the seeds around the stump at the Raccoon Diner. There were no climbers and swingers that night, though.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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