After several weeks of frustration I plunked down the cash for a cheap game camera to try and capture the critter wrecking my feeder. Now I've seen determined raccoons, but this one takes the cake. Not only did it avoid the food I've set out for the cats that was roughly 20yds away, but this raccoon spent the better part of 45 minutes trying to get everything it could from this feeder. I put this feeder up for the cardinals mostly which I also captured on video along with a few blue jays, and other various song birds. Of course with this guy raiding the feeder on a nightly basis they're hardly getting anything at all.
I'm going to track the times over the next few days to see if its on a schedule, and if it is I'm going to pick a night to setup a hide and hopefully solve this problem at least for awhile.
I'm going to track the times over the next few days to see if its on a schedule, and if it is I'm going to pick a night to setup a hide and hopefully solve this problem at least for awhile.