We camp up in Wisconsin where our travel trailer sits in a campground. The Groundhog Day ceremony featuring Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania is the most popular. The truth is although raccoons don’t hibernate in the truest sense of the word, they are certainly much less active, and they do get plenty of rest. I guess people would like to know what a surviving dove will do if its mate dies. Raccoons roam around within a 1 mile radius around their dens. While in torpor, raccoons will sleep for weeks or even a month unlike total hibernation, they can often be roused if disturbed. Generally, raccoons will not stay in one place when no reliable food source is available. To get a raccoon to leave, you’d have to take away their food. But, if the animal does not see its shadow, then spring is right around the corner. Most raccoons tend to stay in one place for longer time periods, but will have more than one nest to live in. If the groundhog sees its shadow and returns to its burrow, there will be six more weeks of winter. Every year on February 2, people around the country celebrate Groundhog Day, a tradition that centers arou n d the idea of a groundhog emerging from its hibernation to 'predict' the weather. They do not migrate to warmer places either.Raccoons are not true hibernators. Groundhogs are among the few mammals that enter into true hibernation, which generally starts in late fall near the end of October and continues until late February. Raccoons do not hibernate in winter, contrary to what many believe. When not feeding, they are known to sunbathe during the warmest periods of the day. They are strict herbivores and eat a variety of vegetables including soybeans, beans, peas, carrot tops, alfalfa and grasses. Groundhogs are primarily active during daylight hours, usually feeding in the early morning. Raccoons are active year round, and cold weather could drive them to seek shelter in your house.

Groundhogs are known to burrow in fields and pastures, along fences and roadsides, and near building foundations or the bases of trees, leaving mounds of soil at the dig site.

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