The little fella above, with a litter mate hidden behind the tree were struggling with the lessons which they had learned a few days previous. Linda had watched a mother raccoon teaching her kits how to open – and close – our cooler. Fortunately we secure our dry storage and coolers with stretching that the raccoons cannot undo (although they did eat through one of two on the cooler).
The two kits above were now on their own. The lessons were over. They had to forage on their own. Life was not as easy as they hoped – for they had been scared up the tree. The human with the camera was not helping matters. Shortly after this photo was taken they did get back on the ground.
