Evening bandits

We had a little excitement last night! We were visited by a pair of raccoons. This is the first time we have seen them during the day (well, evening, it was about 7 PM), and that we have seen two together.

Every now and then we have come in the evening and caught one up in this tree or in the cherry trees in the back (twice this year so far) but this is a rare sighting. It drove Sophia mad, since they were nearly at eye level and only 10 feet away through the living room window. They are watching Sophia and all of us through the glass.

I suspect they visit more often than I think since she gets quite excited in the backyard late at night. She later treed one of them in a cherry tree. This is the 2nd time she has done that (to my knowledge). I left a message with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to see if they should be trapped and relocated. I would want them to be together, tho, so maybe we should leave them alone. They were gone this morning so I am not sure where their normal hideout is.