urban raccoons feed on the fruit of landscaping plants and small animals.

Cool. Which small animals bear fruit?

Sorry--bad copyeditor instinct! Bad! Bad!

I love the pics. You should check out vyoma's journal--he's got a couple regular visitors to his back porch, and he's turned them into photo subjects. He hasn't been posting much lately, so you may have to go back several months to find entries.

I've read more than one cute sf story that theorized that after we wipe ourselves out, the 'coons will be the next species to evolve human-like intelligence.