In the battle between raccoon and sandhill crane, it appears we have a winner.
A raccoon attempts to snag an easy meal at one of the feeders set up to supply the Mississippi sandhills with extra calories during the nesting season at the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge. The two adult cranes decide that this will not happen on their watch and begin to display defensive behavior — the raccoon rethinks his strategy and decides to find lunch elsewhere! A juvenile crane (the drab colored individual) watches and learns in the background.
(Photo USFWS Camera Trap). Posted on Tumblr by the US Department of the Interior, 7/25/14.
