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The rabbit may be common, but I've always found it a difficult animal to observe from close distances. In many ways, it's harder to photograph rabbits than deer. The slightest movement or sound and they will flee.
Explored Apr 03, 2017 #455
This photograph is for our camera club monthly project: April - "An Animal or Bird".
It has been a bit hectic of late and realising that today was the due date for the project,, we went to a local nature reserve in the hope of getting photographs of some of the residents. As it was a sunny afternoon, pretty much all of the residents of the reserve must have decided to go to Skegness (our local seaside town) for the afternoon. All that I saw was one lone rabbit trying to look inconspicuous amongst some tall reeds at the side of the path :-((
Rabbits have brown-grey fur, pale bellies and long ears (but these are relatively short compared with those of a hare). The underside of the tail is white – this can be seen as the rabbit runs away from danger, and acts as a warning to others nearby. Rabbits are not native to Britain; the Normans brought them here in the 12th century for their, then much-prized, fur and meat.
Today, rabbits are among our commonest and most widespread mammals. They live in a system of burrows called a warren. Rabbits use regular trails between their burrows and feeding areas, which often become worn and conspicuous. You may see a pile of rabbit droppings in a prominent place – this is a communal latrine also used as a territory marker.
Rabbits will eat leaves and shoots of a range of vegetation, including crops. In winter, grass, bulbs and bark. As their diet is hard to digest, rabbits eat their food twice. After eating they produce soft droppings that still have high nutritional value. They eat these, and then produce hard pellets of waste material.
Rabbits are prolific breeders and populations can quickly increase in the right conditions. Source: RSPB
This little creature shares its home with many Puffins. Plenty of times I have seen them chase each other out of the burrows on the soft cliff tops of Fair Isle. I always place my bets on the comical Sea clown.
It was too young to know that it wasn't supposed to be eating right beside the trail during the middle of the day, if it didn't want its picture taken by a silly human photographer. :-)
My attempt to capture kingfishers failed. Fortunately I found this cute rabbit near my car. I was happy that I didn't have to go home with an empty CF-card :-)
A small wild rabbit just about to bolt back into its warren on the east side of Hardwick Park. shared with pixbuf.com
There have been a few young rabbits in the yard this year. I was out by the edge of the woods checking the planting beds to see how things were holding up in this heat and this little one was there. They will freeze at first hoping you don't see them, but if you get too close...off they go!
Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)
while on holiday on the north sea coast of germany we had a bunch of wild rabbits in the garden of our house. they were very shy and you had to approach them carefully to get a good shot, Nordfriesland, Germany
I was not expecting to see this rabbit in the middle of the forest which I suspect is a domestic one that probably ran away. Unless it is the typical Eastern Cottontail but I doubt. That is the cutest animal I have ever seen, I fell in love! It made my day
Rabbits have brown-grey fur, pale bellies and long ears (but these are relatively short compared with those of a hare). The underside of the tail is white – this can be seen as the rabbit runs away from danger, and acts as a warning to others nearby. Rabbits are not native to Britain; the Normans brought them here in the 12th century for their, then much-prized, fur and meat.