Raccoon moves into bird’s nest

We were driving around East Ballard looking at the new spring blossoms when we noticed a big fuzzy nest high up in a tree.

We looked closer and realized it was a raccoon!

As we were taking pictures, one of the neighbors came out and explained the raccoon took over the crow’s nest about a week ago. She shook the tree so the critter would wake up. When he did, he just stared down at us.

Sitting up on the wire above, a crow peered down with a branch in its mouth, annoyed that its nest had been commandeered by a raccoon.