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It's cool that you do this. Not frequent enough to make them dependent, but instead just a few easier days for the critters in nature. 🙏

Baby racoons are called Kits. This momma racoon came with the whole "kit and caboodle", or caboodle of kits, to have this free watermelon feast!

FINALLY ANOTHER ONE! Got hooked on this channel in the fall and binge watched all the trail cam footage of food in the forest

I think part of the reason the raccoons show up first is because there's more raccoons than some other, bigger, animals, like bears or deers. Also, raccoons are a lot less timid than most animals... And they're pretty clever as well. I saw raccoons, in New York City, cross a street to get back to Central Park. It even looked to make sure there were no cars coming before crossing the streets.

I am in a rural area. Raccoons are first out for the evening. Then I see skunks next, then opossums...never see fighting. Everyone has their time..

The most likely reason the raccoons are always first is that the don't fear the scent of humans like other animals do. They learned long ago that they could find food to scavenge in our garbage. In many places they are practically domesticated pets. My great aunt had one that they left scraps out for that came around all the time. There is a guy I work with that regularly feeds dozens of them on his back porch every night.

Awww Mama deer, called her babies out when she felt it was safe enough for them. I love watching deer. The fact they are prey animals makes them super vigilant of their surroundings at all times. My brother is a hunter but he also films a lot of wildlife and has captured some great stuff over the years. Love your channel

The deer and The fawns were beautiful. Love it when you post videos like this. And also when you're catching crayfish and finding streams and beautiful scenery.

I really enjoy your videos. There’s no profanity. I can tell you’ve got a great sense of humor and really appreciate the creatures of the forest. Thanks for making videos. Robert

If my brother was still alive he would LOVE these videos. I can imagine him chuckling all the way thru THEN gathering all the necessary food stuffs and heading off into the woods...

Takes a strong man to walk away from a watermelon

Awww. The little spots on the fawns! My heart…

I’m in Tn and we have trail cams. Sometimes, it looks like a scene from a Disney movie lol 😂. Deer , raccoon , possums , and skunks will eat together. They almost look as though they’re talking to each other. I really enjoy your footage and commentary. ❤

Thanks for being so kind to these creatures! I wish more were like you!

It's amazing how aware these animals are. I put a trail cam in a location like this in a similar spot and I thought it was pretty well camouflaged and hidden. Well just about every bear, coyote,deer and racoon would come up and sniff the camera first thing before chowing down on the bait. Pretty amazing.

Watermelon is a good one to leave for the animals during summer because it's basically natural Gatorade. Water, sugar, and electrolytes.

I love these videos it's nice to see how the animals interact with each other.

Wonder what would happen if the watermelon was not split open. How would they get into it? Fun videos.

I love trail camera footage, love seeing what they do. Your videos are one of the things that inspired me to start my own channel - I’ve watched hours and hours of game camera footage - I love setting it up and getting their reactions on my cameras - It’s just fascinating! 👍😁

You've gain yourself a new subscriber!!! 🥰Not only did I enjoy these trail cam snack times myself but I also run a home daycare and my daycare kids are so entertained to watch and see what kind of animals come eat the snacks!!!! 🥰 I run a nature and play based daycare and these videos are PERFECT!!!! We are all excited to see what you put out next and love the idea so much I am adding some trail cams to our to do list so we can see what we get around out here in the country where we live too 🥰 keep em coming and we'll keep watching 🤗🦌🦝🐻🐢🦃

Love these videos and it is so cool to hear someone else get excited about wildlife...and just watching them do what they do!

I agree, the deer mom and her fawns was very beautiful to watch. Beautiful creatures to begin with. Thank you 🙏🏻

Deers and raccoons must have great sense of smell, they always show up on these videos. 🤭 so cute!

Real surprised you had no black bears come for that melon!!! They’d love it!!!!

Thank you again for sharing your videos. Love watching all these beautiful creatures.

Thanks for sharing this Ace. Had three friends die in the last two weeks so this was a nice little distraction.

The deers never fail to disappoint in these videos.

… I was in the kitchen cooking and the two fawns appeared, and I yelled out, … LOOK AT THE BABIES !!! 😆 💕 This channel is so lovely to watch. 🥰

Animals are amazing! In my experience, opossums and skunks seem to have a better sense of smell than racoons. I've watched hours of trail cam footage from my back yard. I will agree, there is limited aggressiveness among them. In my observations, younger specimens tend to be more aggressive as a whole.

As a person who spends a lot of time in the outdoors on my own 20 acre property, and who has decades of experience with wildlife may I offer a few inputs. Before doing that, your video is top quality footage. Good job! Keep observing and sharing your footage. It will help others learn about nature. Ok, first many animals LOVE corn, starting with humans and going all the way down the chain to mice. Nearly everything eats it. Quite a lot of animals eat fruits too. There were many who eat both that didn't happen to visit your camera site. But you may catch some of them on future videos. Second, one thing to be very careful about however is that corn, once it gets wet, can develop bacteria that is toxic to deer and some other animals. Eating tainted corn can kill them. Thus go easy with the amount of corn you pour directly onto the ground. Only put out enough that can be consumed by the animals within 24 hours. And avoid putting out corn before a rain or other water event. If you want an easy to build, cheap but permanent feeder, check out the one on my You Tube channel. I have a video on how to build one that will last for years. It is a trough style feeder with a roof covering that helps keep the corn dry. All the animals can easily use it. Third, for deer to be able to digest corn, they MUST have special enzymes in their stomachs. Older, more mature deer likely have eaten corn before and will be able to digest it easily. But very young fawns probably do NOT have the enzymes they would need. Thus eating very much corn would likely create stomach problems for them. Mama Doe knows this, thus no reason to summons them to a corn pile. They don't need to be eating it yet. And as you noted, they didn't just gobble it up. Racoons and possums are omnivores, as they eat meat and plants (including veggies and fruits.) Essentially those critters will eat dang near anything. Their food doesn't have to be fresh either. They will eat rancid and rotting foods. Plus they are not beyond cannibalism as they will eat meat of their own species if it is available. Overall, these two critters are nasty eaters. So they show up to check out anything that remotely smells like edible food and if they find something, they will likely dig into it with gusto. Deer rarely eat any type of meat, although they can and will eat small baby birds or any other small animal that they can digest. But deer eat well over 700 different types of plants so they too will try most anything that is a plant, vegetable, or fruit. NOTHING gets wasted in nature. Something will eat and consume anything you leave in the woods. Great video. Thanks for sharing.

I feed four foxes , five deer ,racoons and one posseum in my front yard every night . I have never seen any fights between any of them !The foxes love leftover bread and bisquits with peanut butter.They get chicken dogs too.Keep feeding our furry friends !

My dog loves watermelon too! 😁 And my friend's cat used to love cantaloupe.

You must make more of these trail camera videos. Very relaxing and entertaining.

Great video makes me really happy to see all the curious wildlife !

2:15 😂 when The baby raccoon scares itself by rolling the watermelon.. I can't stop watching it!

Thanks for posting these. I love nature and these videos remind me of being out in the forests camping as a young girl. Unfortunately no one I know anymore enjoys camping, so I don’t get to go anymore. 😞 But I love love love watching your videos of all the little woodland critters I’d see as a child. ❤️🦌🦦🐿🦝🌿

I think they're called "kits". Hilarious public service announcement - "don't eat watermelon off of a battle axe!" Good advice. Great vid! Love the SMACK sound effect! 😂

Yeah, I heard mom’s eat first because if mom doesn’t survive nobody survives. Really nice video and appreciate your voice over with excitement. Thanks.

The deer got the zoomies!! 🤣

Your comments are hilarious and the music is awesome along with the trail cam footage! love these! :)

Loved the deer with her fawns, nice for them to have a treat

Please keep doing these videos. Definitely my favorite on KZfaq right now.

Mother raccoon "you kids are getting on my last nerve, I'm gone" 😁 your trail does an awesome job!

Copenhagen Zoo feeds animals with water melons. Polar bears, brown bears, elephants and many more love it!

One winter in the middle of the night 6 deer of all ages went down our driveway & went into the road & danced, pranced & hopped around each other all the way down until I couldn't see them. We live in town so I could see them by the street lights. We've seen them eating our apples & stand up to reach them. It's fun to see them but, they get in our garden. We sprinkle Irish Spring Soap around or they'd eat everything. They can have the apples & that probably draws them but, even though the apples aren't good I leave the trees for the critters. Loved this video.💕🐞

Hey mate, I just discovered your videos today. Thanks so much for doing this, I really appreciate it and am thoroughly enjoying. Brings a lot of joy.

Fascinating to see the animals. And so glad none get hurt.

I’m really glad I ran across your films they are a lot of fun to watch!!!!❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 if my pig was there there wouldn’t be any watermelon left. 🐷

Love these, we need more. xoxo

I love every single one of these animals, and it makes me happy to see them happy and healthy. Thank you for making their day happier 🙏❤

I think Ace just likes chopping stuff with that axe!

love the trail cam videos! it's always interesting to see what animals show up and what their reactions are. I've had several bears, elk and an owl frequenting my camera. They are fun to watch! I'll have a new vid posted soon 😎

The Grandkids Love your video's!

LOL Baby raccoons are kits. Several families with 4 kits each are coming to snack with me this year. They also love marshmallows. I get the minis for the kits. Quite often I find turtles in the watermelon shells. They seem to really enjoy them too.

Years ago I had a 25lb pet female raccoon named Ruckus. She LOOOOOVVVVEED her some watermelon, and mini marshmallows, by the way. My neighbor (Who "can't stand them d**n animals") would buy those big oblong seeded watermelons and slice them in half lengthways, but would only eat the heart down to the seeds. He would bring Ruckus the 2 remaining halves. She would jump in one with all 4 paws and bury her face in the fruit, snarling and slurping and chewing like she hadn't eaten in a week. It was absolutely hilarious to watch. The trail cam videos are great! Thanks for sharing them.

Maybe apples or fruit for the deer would be really cool to see. They always come to investigate the other food but never nibble. Fruit for sure to get the deer to eat. Great content glad I stumbled on ya, thanx

Love the opossum at the end. I know you do not care so much for them. Thanks for letting be in the film. Have you ever seen raccoons fight or heard them? That is a scary sight!

Raccoon love grapes as well because it’s so sweet I love them chomping down and licking their chops 😂

Really like the camera, it takes very good pictures and easy to set up.

I live in Texas and our deer love watermelon especially during this drought. We always throw the rinds out to them.

Another idea is you do like a special like All the things you have put out in other videos all in one so like you put water Mellon pizza and peanut butter and stuff like that you already have done all next too each other

I am new to your channel. I absolutely love what you do! Thank you for being so kind and thoughtful for feeding these beautiful creatures!

Wildlife rehabber from Ct here...I loved this!!. Forest animals need some help as we move in and thoughtlessly cut down their nut trees. Xo

Bruh, I can't even with the adorableness.

Raccoons and skunks def have the best smell. They find EVERYTHING. Lol

These videos are so addicting lol don’t mind me while I waste my day bingeing them all lol

That deer had the zoomies!!😂

Raccoon's love anything sweet. Thanks for sharing.

Deer are so heccin cute!

😂😂 loving all the raccoons and deer with the fawns ooo❤ so cute.

Great videos. Thanks for sharing your wonderful experiences! ❤

Regularly rewatch the forest offerings videos, can't wait for the next one. I bet you could get some good deals on a pile of fruit and veg with the price marked down at the end of shelf life

Just found your channel and would love to watch them for hours! I hope more videos are coming soon :)

I am addicted to these videos!! Thank u so much for doing them!!

What a treat for the raccoons- they looked really hungry. Mine love grapes. Cute kits 💕

Such a simple but brilliant idea.

This video hooked me, gotta watch more now! Thanks

Watermelon sugar high that night fo sho, 😄very cute!

That was pretty awesome. I feed all the furry kids that come out of the woods into the yard too. I don't have a cam, but I can see from the window. I love it 😀

These are FUN THE TURTLE MADE ME HOLLER LOLOLOL THANK YOUUUU

Love these trail cam vids

Horses love watermelon rinds, so I’m sure deer and most other animals love it.

Has to be one of the cutest videos I’ve seen with wild animals. Raccoons are cute but they are scavengers. I had one steal an entire bag of marshmallows off the picnic table at my campsite. Then next thing I know I can hear a few of them fighting. 🤣. The deer & fawns were super cute as well.

Add a few sweet potatoes (cut up) and carrots in with the corn. Every other day include several cut up apples. Any porcupines in the area will also join in on the feast. The only animals I’ve seen jumping on each other are a) squirrels b) turkey. Other than that they seem to share well. Pumpkin and Watermelon, really a treat for all. .

Fantastic channel! Thanks for posting. 👍

the deer got the zoomies

I love your videos. Thank you.

Bambi and Thumper got in on the action.

Yeah raccoons always love fruit. Possums too.

Beautiful deer 🦌 and fawns

Great channel. Love it and love the animals. Your narrations are the very best

Nice axe! I guess you'll appreciate the pumpkin melee bash I mentioned 😊

such beautiful little fawns. l guess the mothers eat first to have enough milk and the stamina to be there for her babies 🦌🦝🌿🌱

That's an awesome Mall Warrior axe!! 🤣

That is an awesome hatchet you have but sticking it in the dirt like that dulls the blade so quick. Videos are therapeutic. Good work.

Ohhh, man... Thank you for making my Day! I love your narrative you crack me up! Had to show everyone I know haHaHaHa so cool!❤❤❤ Thank you once again❤😊USA💙💜💟👍🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

I found out some of the best bait for small varmints like fox's raccoon ect ,is a mixture of bread, cheese, maple syrup and dog food

What a sweet upload, thanks for sharing :)

Awe, the "spotty" deer. That's what I call the fawns lol.