Tracks
I found these tracks after our last big rain and thought they looked like Raccoon but since we’ve never seen one in all the years we’ve lived up here, I wasn’t sure. I checked the Arizona Game and Fish website and it does look like they might have been made by a Raccoon. They say they are typically in riparian areas or where there is an abundant source of water. There is a large wash with a spring in between our neighborhood and the Preserve but maybe they like the swimming pools in the neighborhood more 🙂
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For as much time as I spend outdoors at night in Arizona, I’d never seen a raccoon until this year … and I’ve seen about 10 of them. Go figure. They’re very common apparently, even on the mostly-dead mountains of inner Phoenix. A woman I caught a snake for that lives on the old side of North Mountain showed me photos of a family of raccoons that visit her porch every night to share food with a feral cat.
Maybe they’re moving north 🙂