Some night visitors

After a few months of neglecting my motion activated trail camera, I decided to set it up near the beehive again.  There were quite a few interesting visitors. 

A very unusually patterned skunk.  He appears to be somewhat alarmed by the infrared flash that was triggered by his movements.  Though mostly invisible, the IR flash does have a faint red glow. 

Its a tense few seconds while the skunk tries to figure out what is going on. 

Ten seconds later the skunk turns and heads off in another direction. 

The evening after the skunk passed through, a medium-sized raccoon walks by. 

A few hours later, a raccoon (possibly the same one from before), walks straight up to the entrance of the hive. 

Literally one second later, the raccoon is streaking away from the hive.  It wouldn't surprise me if one of the many bees that like to hang out around the entrance of a hive on warm nights stung this raccoon. 

An hour later, our friend the skunk returns. 

He doesn't seem to bother much with the hive and continues on his way.