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Bunny capers
To set the stage:
About thirty minutes ago I went downstairs to make me an evening snack, when I noticed a cute little bunny rabbit sitting with its back to my french doors in the middle of my (very) weedy flower bed. I’ve seen rabbits in my front and backyard before, but never had such an opportunity to photograph one as I did tonight. So I quickly ran upstairs, grabbed the digital camera, and ran back down the stairs to try and take a quick pic. By the time I opened the door, the bunny had dashed off of the flower bed and into the yard. I tried to snap a couple of photos, but – as my luck would have it – the battery to the digi was almost dead. So I ran upstairs again, recharged the battery for about sixty seconds (long enough to take another couple of pix) and then ran back down to see if the rabbit was still there. Luckily it was. So I took another pic before it ran off down the back of my building – and to my surprise there was another bunny … maybe the mother, because she was older and bigger. So I got took one more photo and hoped in the meantime that the flash I used on the camera didn’t blind them (it was close to dark outside so I had no choice).
I made my snack, then came back upstairs to check out how the pix turned out. As you’ll see from the below shot (which is the best of ‘em) they didn’t turn out very good:
I tried to lighten it up some, because even with the flash it was still dark back there – if you look closely to the right of the tree trunk, you’ll see a bright dot; that’s the flash shining off the lil guy’s eye. The one pic I took of mama bunny and baby bunny have little dots in the pic even smaller than that one.
I know – it’s not a great photo, but I have one that I think will compensate for it:
Ok – yes, it is indeed a faux bunny: it’s the one I have in my front yard. I swear it does not look that fake in natural lighting …
Prior:
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LOL! Cute.
We have a bunny living in our neighborhood. It’s an escaped domestic callico bunny, hugely fat. He’s been out livng on the land in the neighborhood for a couple of years now. We first noticed him while taking a walk in the morning. He disappears from time to time but always shows up in a few days. He’s one of the things we look for everyday while walking. Cute, but fat and big, even the cats don’t bother him.
Cool! The mama bunny I saw tonight is about that big.
The thing I love about rabbits is their little cute ears and how you can see ‘em even when the grass is high
I remember when I was very, very young when we lived in the country, routinely seeing baby bunnies hopping around. Me and a young kid who lived across the dirt road used to go into the woods and look for bunnies. Mom got so irked at me one day when I brought home four baby bunbuns …
“Come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.” - Tim the Enchanter in Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog Scene
- Not to mention the nemesis of Jhimmi Carter.
- Bang
Ok, sorry. Now that I look back, I hate to link these two incidents as I did. Just a moment of snark. Please forgive me.
Barney
Barney, just deleted your prior comment – want to keep this thread lighthearted. Please repost your link in today’s open thread, if you wish. Thanks — ST
Thanks. It only fit in the immediate, drunken stupor.
Barney
My back yard adjoins a wooded area, so I’ve had rabbits, foxes, woodchucks, and deer visit every now and then. For some reason, the woodchucks, especially, like to chow down on the weeds. Beats using a lawn service to kill the weeds!
Shhhhhhhhh, be vewy quiet…….
I guess this would probably be the wrong time to tell the story about how one of my dogs caught a little rabbit in the backyard. It wasn’t pretty…………
NC, do not impart the marinate recipe here and now, either.
Heeheeheeee!
We have woods in out backyard. We see deer all the time and they come to our yard to eat the corn that we put out. One day I came home around 3p and two bucks and a mama I guess were at the end of my drive-way eating my Famosa tree — the pink stuff must be good.
Our Jack Russell terrier loves to chase em and she also trees every squirell in Shelby County, Al. Tildie can run faster than any dog I have seen.
I also love all the lizards we have in the South.
Every time I go outside on my deck its like Jurassic Park, just a smaller version. When we went to visit my grandparents in Mobile we used to bring em back on the plane in shoe boxes with holes punched in em.
We also had 3 rabbits when were were little crumbsnatchers ….. one was named Star, one Ace and the other Peter, who by the way got pregnated by Ace and had very pretty white bunnies. Later Peter died and Ace was broken hearted and died and Star lived to be a very old codger.
One more neat thing about the lizards, my older brother mananged to get a chain around one of the lizards neck and wore him on his shoulder, I swear that is true guys.
LOL, NC – I’ve caught my cat a few times stalking and catching baby bunnies … a few times I was able to get her to let them go. The other times, well, we won’t go there!