This marsh raccoon is on a bender and late in heading home. Seeing raccoons in the day does not mean they are sick. Spring is a time of mating and territorial disputes and summer is a time of feeding kits.

Seeing a raccoon in the day usually means it’s hungry or taking advantage of an environmental situation. Marsh raccoons prefer hunting at low tide and the tides change every day here. The tide was more opportunistic for it as the light comes out so it takes advantage of that.

Lastly, as daylight increases it reduces the available of dark night hours that they have in the fall and winter to forage and hunt. Charleston SC 31 March 20225