Hi again Karen, just found your message here too, thanks. We haven't seen her with any youngsters yet this year, - yours must be ahead of ours in this area, due to warmer climate there, I guess. Am hoping she won't have a baby this year, but can't control wild critters like we can with our housepets by having them neutered/spayed, so assume she will appear before long with a baby as she did last year. Unfortunately, it didn't survive very long, altho we don't know what became of it. It just didn't show up anymore after awhile, and just before it vanished, it had been limping a bit, altho it had improved the last time I saw it, - and it was running about so prettily in the back yard late that night.

But guess she couldn't look after it properly and something happened to it.

She is lucky to have you to provide a safe place to get a drink. Once her young go off on their own she will have a difficult time surviving. We have had three raccoon youngsters visiting our birdbath and tipping it over, so I finally put out a small plastic pan of water for them.

Hi Cindy, thanks so much, so good to hear from you, have missed everyone at TLF. How are you and yours? I loved that eagle image you sent me, could you send it by regular email, as seem to have "lost" it at SU somehow : ) Such a stunning image that was. I dream of capturing something half as good.

That's a cute idea about a movie of Mama Raccoon, never thought of that. Poor thing, I don't know how she manages. She did show up here this morning, so we were glad of that, as we missed seeing her yesterday, and she's been here without fail for many weeks. She loves donuts! - but just a certain type LOL. We ran out of that type, as we get them from a store farther away, (just for her) - and she wasn't keen on the ones we picked up locally : ) - maybe that's why she didn't show up here yesterday, haha

thankyou, Jas, Carol and Ikka for the nice comments.

Jas, They normally come out at nights, - if they come out during the daytime, there's often something "wrong", -- like in the case of this blind mother raccoon. She can't really compete with other raccoons at night, so she forages in the daytime when the others aren't around. At least, that's what we've observed around here.

Quite often the mothers with new babies (when they first venture out with them) will also appear in late afternoon before the others come out at nights too, as they are trying to protect the babies.

We never found out what became of this mama's single baby that used to guide her around last spring.

Alandra I remember the story of this poor animal. So I enjoy to see it again here. Wonderful shot.