Bunny at the window!

 

Here's your bunny update for April 22, 2009: The baby rabbits have vacated their hole in the back yard and are freely wandering all around the exterior of our house. When you go outside, the bushes rustle with the movement of tiny creatures. Last night, I went outside just before bed and found 3 of the babies loose in the back yard. So, I think they're ready to be on their own. My main concern is they don't become hawk food if I can prevent it.

In the picture above, Pam was alerted to something going on outside by our dog barking. She came to investigate and saw our cat staring at one of the baby bunnies through the window. She took several pictures and I have posted all of them to our web album up on Picasa. Enjoy!

Bunny Escape!

From Easter 2009

For the past couple of weeks, we have been watching a hole in our back yard. In it have been five baby bunnies. For those of you who have been following our posts here and on our web albums and occasionally on facebook, we know you have been enjoying the photos and stories as much as we have in posting them. In our almost daily checks, we have noticed the baby rabbits getting bigger and bigger. Today, they were so big, the hole could barely contain them. When I first approached the hole, the grass and fur that covered it was moving - a lot! The grassy surface was rolling around like it was sitting on water. I poked my finger in and pulled back a small amount so I could look in and immediately one of the babies jumped out and started running around. I captured it and put it back in the hole.

From Easter 2009

A short while later, three bunnies popped out of the hole, one after the other and began running around. The first one ran so fast and so far, we couldn't keep up with it. The other two ran a short distance and stopped. I was able to capture both of them and put them back in the hole.

From Easter 2009

As for the one that got away, I followed the path it took and found the mother rabbit just beyond our fence. It is my hope that the baby ran to its mother and is safe with her.

From Easter 2009

The remaining four bunnies are safe in their hole, but considering how easily they got around this afternoon, I expect the hole to be empty by tomorrow morning. So, this may be our last bunny post for a while. Enjoy the photos! Thanks for following along.

Bunnies are still fine!

 

I checked on the baby bunnies in our back yard today and they're looking really good. There are five in all. Four are about the same size and then there is one that is about half the size of the others. They now have their eyes open, so I am guessing we are going to be seeing little bunnies hopping around in our back yard any day now. They are so cute to see, but we are limiting our visits to once per day and we always put the nest back the way we found it so the mother rabbit doesn't abandon it. The best I can tell, she must be coming around only during the middle of the night and hides elsewhere during the day. We have never seen her with the babies, but from the way they are developing it is obvious that they are being taken care of. My main concern is about predators. We have snakes and lots of hawks out here. I sure would like to protect the rabbits from becoming dinner for another wild animal, but that is how nature works. What else can you do?

More news soon.

Bunny update

Here is a video I took of the baby rabbits in our back yard on Easter Sunday.

Happy Easter!

 

 

After a night of thunderstorms, we weren't sure we would get to do our traditional Easter egg hunt outdoors today. But, while we were at church, the skies cleared and the yard dried out enough to send the kids out for some fun. David hasn't quite figured out what is going on just yet, but he enjoyed the excitement. Abby is an old pro at finding eggs, so hers might have been hidden with a slightly higher level of craftiness.

My parents came by to join in the festivities and bring some treats for the kids as well. It has been a Good News day with plenty of happy moments.

Just in time for Easter: BABY BUNNIES!

From Blogger Pictures

We had a sweet surprise in our back yard today. I saw some fuzz poking out of our grass and went over to pick it up and toss it. Underneath was a hole in the yard with at least four baby rabbits in it! I carefully covered it back up after taking a few photos of them. I hope they make it. We love having rabbits running free in our back yard. They're sweet to watch and the dog enjoys chasing them. She can't catch them and I think the rabbits must enjoy the chase, too, because they always come back for more. However, this is the first time they have ever had babies in our yard. What a cool thing to see!

And now we're on Facebook, too!

Well, Pam and I finally did it. We joined the countless others who are now up on facebook.com. Pam had commented to me that more and more of the people she knows are using FB to keep in touch and she wasn’t sure if she wanted to do that or not. I really did not have much desire to get on the FB bandwagon, but that was mostly because I didn’t know much about it. I already have about a half-dozen sites I use to keep in touch with my music friends and I didn’t see the need to add one more place for me to write blogs and post pictures of my interests. But, this past week, one of the discussion groups I follow was going to migrate some of its operations over to FB and from what they had to say about it, I started to change my mind.

I discussed it with Pam and then decided to take the plunge. Pam followed me about a day later. So, now we can keep up with everyone through our FB pages as well. Pam has been enjoying how quickly her friends list is populating over there. She still has more friends than me, however I don’t see this as a contest to see who can amass the most friends, but rather just another tool to keep up with people we care about. So, if you’re on FB feel free to pile on, if you are so inclined.

From Bluebonnets 2009

We took the kids out for photos in the Bluebonnets today. The crop is disappointingly small this year. We drove around for a long time before we could find a patch of them that was worthy of pictures. A place we have used in the past was too overgrown with tall, dry weeds and the other places that had good concentrations of the flowers were on fenced, private property and we didn’t have the gall to invite ourselves in for a quick photo shoot. So, we ended up at a patch where we had photographed Abby back when she was a toddler. There were fewer flowers, but they looked pretty good for our purposes. David enjoyed his time in the wildflowers, too. He got sad when we had to go back to the car. I put the best of the photos up in a new album on our Picasa Web Album page, called “Bluebonnets 2009.”

Hope you enjoy the photos. Thanks for checking in.