Mama raccoon takes the family on a fishing trip

With only a few, rare exceptions, I have never had much luck getting more than a fleeting glimpse of “trash pandas.” This past weekend a buddy spotted a new family of them out fishing and I raced to get some pics.

Mama raccoon had brought her four little ones to a lake and was busily grabbing crawdads and eating them. The kits stuck to the reeds, only giving brief looks at the four of them and never a good shot of all of them together.

I did manage some nice captures of mom and then of her and three of the little ones though. While not very exotic or exciting creatures, it was a fun photo op.