Yes! The first night I tried my project at the other house, I actually got what I was looking for - a raccoon! During the next day, I planned how I could hopefully attract more raccoons, but still figured - “Even if I don’t get anything, that one shot was worth it! I got a raccoon! What I’ve been wanting to see for years!” Still I hoped that I could get more raccoons to come to my setup - so I tried a few new things setup-wise… I tried setting up another camera I brought for a ground shot and set up a tripod for the main camera but that was all for naught, as it rained that night… all night, despite the weather forecasts to the contrary. So, perhaps to my advantage, I needed to set everything up the same way as the night before — only this time, I had an ace up my sleeve - the shotgun mic! “Even if I can’t stick a camera outside to get a shot, at least this way I can hear what the raccoons sound like!” I set everything up again, getting food ready and sticking it in the bag - I felt more like a zookeeper doing this than I would at home, because it was almost guaranteed at this point that more animals were coming! I made the holes in my project a little larger, “raccoon friendly” as I called it, in the hope that an interested raccoon would like to investigate what’s in the bag, and I hammered my project, “the bag” as my grandfather called it, into the ground with spikes. Once again, I was thinking of what could happen if a raccoon was interested enough and checked in “the bag” itself for food. “I don’t want it to carry the whole thing off, so I’ll hammer it down this time!” Once again I left everything running… once again, I got a light here or there during the night, a possum walked by, a raccoon peered out from the woods, but nothing came up for food… That is, until 3am or so — a raccoon came up and started to eat the bread around the bag. “Yes!, it’s another raccoon!” Not only did this one stick around, but it even found the food inside the bag! It reached into it to pull some bread out of it and even made the hole bigger for better access to the bread I stuck into the bag! One of the sights I’ve been wanting to see for as long as I’ve been doing my project - a raccoon actually getting food from my project! Besides the raccoons that chanced by, I also got an interesting closeup of a rabbit that stumbled into the yard and chewed on a piece of bread (which, until that point, I didn’t think they did, but, it was eating it…)

NOTE: There are 2 normal sized (360×240 for the High Quality file and 320×240 for the Lower Quality file) as well as one larger XL (480×320) format file with this posting. The normal sized files are feeds of the entire day’s session, all of the animals that walked by, tried to check things out or shots of anything else I found interesting about the day’s feed… The larger file (the XL format file) is a shot of one scene specificially ~

• A shot of the raccoon digging at the project to get bread out of the bag, which I originally compressed in June to show off the raccoon! (this XL feed also has the text on the bottom, as mentioned on the 6-8 XL video)

One thing, though about the XL format files in this post - they were originally coded at 1.5Mbps — they may not stream correctly with such a large bandwith, so if you choose to watch the XL file, it would probably be better to let it load some of the file before playing it!

 

 BFP 6-9-06 Raccoon Project Feed (Demo) [0:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 BFP 6-9-06 Raccoon Project Feed (High Quality 800Kbps Version) [17:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 BFP 6-9-06 Raccoon Project Feed (Low Quality 300Kbps Version) [17:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 6-9-06 Raccoon, tearing at the mat! (XL Quality Version) [5:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup