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They are such fun to watch. My cat can sit on a table in the sunroom and watch the birds feed and the animals at night but they would have to crawl up the shingles to schmooze through the glass up close.

I confess to recycling lots of food trash for them but nothing with bones in it. It used to be the crows but don't see them too much any more since West Nile and maybe the city got ours.

I can't stand to put stinky stuff in my trash and my pipe in the basement is only 2" so I'm careful what I put in the garbage disposal. So I stick it outside and it's gone by morning. My neighbor doesn't seem to mind and has been throwing stuff out on the ground, too.

I doubt there's a natural shortage of food for them but they are always happy to get a handout, and I think coons are especially cute but decided you don't want to try to tame a baby for a pet. I've got a couple possums that come around, too. They are kind of ugly but I have grown quite fond of them.

Whoever gets there first. Tonight it will probably be pizza crusts too tough to chew.

I forgot my squirrels. I just love them. Well we don't have too many. But there is one little black female. My daughter saw her nursing two brown babies up in my birch tree where she has one nest.

Well, she got comfortable around me but I haven't tried to get her to eat out of my fingers like I have others. I named her Zoey, and she was coming when I called her. One day I was late putting out the wild bird mix she loves, had the new package out in the trunk.

So I go out with my plastic snow shovel which I need for help to get up and down steps and start for the street. She scampers along right behind me. She wasn't afraid of the shovel. I got the seed and she scampers along behind me back to the house and waits patiently while I take it inside, open it and scoop some for her. I take it out and scatter it on the stoop. I learned not to scatter too far or she will back up because it gets in her face. It's just so cute; I hate it when I lose them.