After two months of age the young accompany the mother on excursions for food and may travel several miles. Family groups remain intact for about a year. Distribution And Habitat Raccoons are very common throughout Connecticut and the northeastern United States. Color shadings in the fur may vary according to age, sex and range area. They inhabit a wide range of habitats, but prefer mature woodlands along streams, ponds, wetlands and marshes.
Raccoons also require trees, bushes and other cover for protection.
Raccoons are adaptable to environmental changes and can live close to human developments that include city life. They may persistently feed on garbage and agricultural crops. Habits Raccoons are omnivorous, eating both plant and animal foods. They make their homes in hollow trees or logs, rock dens, brush piles, muskrat houses, barns, abandoned buildings, haystacks, dense clumps of cattails and occasionally ground burrows. Because raccoons are mostly active at night, they can be common in the area but rarely seen.