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Saturday, June 3. 2023

Who killed our Cottontails?

We had a tribe of 5 or 6 cute, almost tame Cottontail Rabbits until the past weekend. 


All gone. Fox? Coyote? A Red-Tail or owl could not have cleaned them out so quickly. Rabbits are food for everything, but that was quick.



Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation at 14:50 | Comments (11) | Trackbacks (0)

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Maybe they emigrated to Australia.
#1 Gringo on 2023-06-03 17:07 (Reply)
Hobbits. Sorry, but conies - we love 'em!
#2 Frodo on 2023-06-03 17:09 (Reply)
No worries, God is making plenty of them.
#3 feeblemind on 2023-06-03 18:56 (Reply)
NPR sent an investigator who determined that it was climate change that did in the poor little bunnies.
#4 Ed on 2023-06-03 19:04 (Reply)
There are so many times i have mowed the lawn and miraculously had the blades high enough to miss the youngins. They look like smooth lake stones when theyre newborn
#5 Joe on 2023-06-03 20:56 (Reply)
House cats.
#6 SK on 2023-06-03 22:34 (Reply)
This.

One of your neighbors lets their cat roam.
#6.1 William O. B'Livion on 2023-06-04 20:08 (Reply)
They were delicious. The little ones are so tender you hardly have to marinate them at all.
#7 Hairless Joe on 2023-06-04 08:58 (Reply)
Fox or bobcat would be my guess. This is the time of year for kits and kittens. Pregnancy and nursing places high demands on momma.
#8 Aggie on 2023-06-04 10:23 (Reply)
Elmer Fudd (you knew that was coming).
#9 Zachinoff on 2023-06-04 12:19 (Reply)
Here in NW Wyoming we've had a plague go through the rabbits. It's a new form of a hemorrhagic fever that has killed about 90% of the cottontail and jackrabbit population in the wild, and is threatening the domestically-raised population as well.

We didn't see a rabbit all of last year, and this year they're only finally starting to make a comeback. It's been hard on the predator population since rabbits are a normal food source for a wide variety of critters.
#10 Blackwing1 on 2023-06-04 13:36 (Reply)

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