Night time intruder

Last night I was lying in bed, trying to sleep. My body has been very tired lately, but something seemed to be urging me to get up. I sat up and immediately, some small movement caught my eye. I looked closer out the window and that's when I saw him. He looked like a tiny black bear from where I was, and I had the urge to reach out and hug him. Then I saw what he was up to - holding down the bird with one hand, and shoveling seed in his mouth with the other.

I tapped on the window. He looked up at me and his eyes reflected what little light there was. He paused, then stuck his paw back in, without taking his eyes off of me. I opened the window. He paused again. I said, "hey mr. raccoon, you better get moving," and that's what he did. Turned right around and waddled over to the stairs. I did my own waddle down the stairs and headed out onto the back porch where I heard the unmistakable sounds of scuttling. Brought the feeder inside and slept well.

Hope we wasn't too hungry to sleep well himself.

Despite their absolute adorableness, if anyone who doesn't already know that they can be seriously dangerous is reading this, please don't follow that urge to hug, they're cuter when they're far away.

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