Easter bunnies!
Apr. 11th, 2006 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
velessaSaturday afternoon at work an adorable little nest of baby cottontails was discovered in the part of the barn where we keep the food for the horses. So cute! ^_^
Here's their nest...
Two of them were adventurous and explored outside the nest
In one of the feed bins
One of them next to my foot
Here's one inside a rubber boot Sara put on the ground
Unfortunately it their mother put them right where they'd get stomped on while we were feeding (which was how they were found; luckily they didn't get stepped on!). We decided to just leave them there for the night, but they were still there all day on Sunday. Sunday afternoon I called around for a wildlife rescue place, and I was put in touch with a woman who specializes in rehabilitating rabbits. So the bunnies were scooped into a bucket and I took them to her.
In the bucket
In the bucket on the seat of my truck
That's the end of our Easter bunny adventure. The joke is that these are the illegitimate children of the rabbit and the squirrel who live in front of the office and are always playing together. ;) I'll have to take pictures of them sometime.
I forgot, we also had a coyote come in reaaaally close to us at the stable on Saturday. It was only maybe ten or fifteen feet away from those horses tied there on the rail. And there were a whole ton of people standing there on the porch waiting for a lesson, I don't know why he wasn't scared off. I suspect it's a grown up version of one of the coyote pups that was living around the pond last year, which would make it really used to people. (Last year there was a mother with two pups living on the same hill with the pond that the rental horses live on). Maybe he's the reason the rabbit put her babies in the barn?
Two of them were adventurous and explored outside the nest
In one of the feed bins
One of them next to my foot
Here's one inside a rubber boot Sara put on the ground
Unfortunately it their mother put them right where they'd get stomped on while we were feeding (which was how they were found; luckily they didn't get stepped on!). We decided to just leave them there for the night, but they were still there all day on Sunday. Sunday afternoon I called around for a wildlife rescue place, and I was put in touch with a woman who specializes in rehabilitating rabbits. So the bunnies were scooped into a bucket and I took them to her.
In the bucket on the seat of my truck
That's the end of our Easter bunny adventure. The joke is that these are the illegitimate children of the rabbit and the squirrel who live in front of the office and are always playing together. ;) I'll have to take pictures of them sometime.
I forgot, we also had a coyote come in reaaaally close to us at the stable on Saturday. It was only maybe ten or fifteen feet away from those horses tied there on the rail. And there were a whole ton of people standing there on the porch waiting for a lesson, I don't know why he wasn't scared off. I suspect it's a grown up version of one of the coyote pups that was living around the pond last year, which would make it really used to people. (Last year there was a mother with two pups living on the same hill with the pond that the rental horses live on). Maybe he's the reason the rabbit put her babies in the barn?
