Deer vs Raccoons

For a couple of months now, I've been collecting pictures of deer and raccoons from our wildlife camera.  I don't remember seeing many raccoons at our deer feeder last year, but that is not the case this year.  Here's what I mean:

They were having quite a party out there on the night above.  Sometimes, something will capture their attention, like this:

I suspect they may be looking at some of the deer that frequent the feeder each night.  Here's a picture of a herd of deer that seem to be having a party too.

At any rate, it is interesting to observe the interaction between the two species.  Here are a few pictures to show what I mean.

In this picture, the deer appears to be somewhat apprehensive about approaching the feeder while the raccoons are there.

These deer appear to be yearlings that were born this spring.  Looks like they have decided that "discretion is the better part of valor"!

But, in this picture, we see a deer and a raccoon are eating together.

There seems to be some sort of "stand-off" happening here.  I'm not sure who won.

Notice in this picture the deer has her foot in the feeder itself.  It sort of looks like she is claiming the feeder for herself and warning the raccoon not to come any closer!

You can see in the above pictures that these raccoons are pretty big.  I have heard that raccoons can be ferocious when cornered and that they can inflict terrible wounds on domestic dogs if attacked.   I tend to believe this because in most of the pictures where the deer and raccoons are present together, the raccoons are the ones eating while the deer are hanging back waiting for them to go away.