Night b4 last I went to bed at my usual time and fell right asleep. About an hour later I was lifted clear of the bed when a "Ki yi yi yi yi" sounded outside. I muttered about raccoons fighting and went back to sleep. About 45 min later a very shrill "ki yi yi yi" followed by a deeper "chir yi yi yi " woke me again. I got up and turned the light on and the sound stopped so went back to sleep. This kept up all night!!! I got up to investigate several times but never saw anything!
When it happened again about 5:30 am I got up [it was light enough now not to need lights] and very quietly opened the outside door... and there was a great big raccoon crouched by the compost barrel. I stepped out and yelled but it only crouched down more and refused to move an inch! I threw things at it until it finally backed into the woods out of sight.
I cheered, lol and figured that since I was up, I would do an upgrade or two on my comp since it was free internet time. I just sat down at the comp when the hair on my neck began to raise as the "ki yi yi yi yi" started all over again!!!!
This time hubby finally woke up, came stomping upstairs and opened the outside door then announced "Coon at compost barrel" [no duh!!]
I grabbed my dust mop and headed out to put the run to it for good and again it backed off into the woods and this time I looked into the compost barrell and there was the tinest baby 'coon trapped in the barrell, lol. All that shrilling was coming from it! If I had dared pick it up I could have cupped it in both hands with room to spare! I've never seen one that small b4.
I tipped the barrell over gently and it headed for the woods. End of the story I thought.
Last night it happened again!!!! Because I now knew what the sound was I was able to sleep through but this morning I investigated the barrel... yup he was there again!
I grabbed my camera and took this: [IMG]http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/Orashadow/Cooncropped.jpg[/IMG]
24-Jul-2012 22:13:10
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