Nature finds a way

[wickedwords]

Yesterday  I went out to pull some of the dandelions on the rocky back hill, and  put on gloves and stole one of my husband's long-sleeved flannel shirts as I have issues with nettles and other prickly plants, so I am always on high alert when I do weeding. I kept hearing a rustle in the bushes.  I caught sight of some movement and noticed brown fur scampering away from me, and was all 'Rats!  Ahhhhhh!!! Rats in the rocks.  Ahhhh! '

I decided to move to a different location.

While there, I spied a small brown bunny --not a rat after all.  It passed by me, crossing our sloped yard and down to the flat meadow-like areas near the neighbor's house.

From under the trees, the neighbor's cat took an interest in it as well.  He didn't launch after it, but was obviously keeping an eye out for opportunity. 

When a second small brown rabbit joined the first, I decided I was done for the day and distracted the cat with my 'happy to see you voice' while the two rabbits scampered down the drive and out to freedom. 

The cat gave me a disgusted look, and headed back to his place. Naturally, I went back inside as the garden is a very busy place.

Comments

[arduinna]

I just went with therienne to deliver some groceries to her elderly uncle, and while she was toting things up to the door I saw a bunny scamper through an unlocked fence, dart across the driveway into the ... carport thingie, and then bang a left for the neighbor's back garden after pausing for a minute or two to pose. So bold!

[wickedwords]

They are getting bold! All of the humans being inside lets them do so many things and feel safe.

[barkley]

Bunnies! So much better than rats.

[wickedwords]

I know, right? We usually get a bunny or two in the spring, so I should have considered that, but at the moment, my brain is all 'worst case scenario' first.

[gattagrigia]

We, or the cats, see bunnies in out yard almost every day. Hamlin park is only a couple of blocks away, and lots of bunnies inhabit. So do a couple of coyotes, and probably the bobcat some folks have seen, but the bunnies are plentiful.

[wickedwords]

We've gotten one or two in our yard every year, and the occasional deer. One year we were awakened by coyotes yipping at the bottom of our drive, clearly chasing something. It just seems like the bunnies are out every day now, brave things.