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Mammals - Rabbit Page 5

Image Taken on 29 Jul 2008 at 05:17 Image of day on 14 Aug 2008

This is a bit of a fiddle, but the robin was originally off the edge of the frame (with tail missing) so we moved him across to make a more compact offering. Recently seeing more birds and rabbits together than we are used to - any significance unknown.

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Image Taken on 12 Jun 2015 at 20:45 Image of day on 15 Aug 2015

A baby rabbit feasting in the buttercups and clover as darkness falls.

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Image Taken on 02 Aug 2025 at 17:15 Image of day on 25 Sep 2025

Rabbits do little damage here now that we know to protect any new trees, and we see far fewer than when the surrounding land was cow pasture.
While the Fox is away the Rabbits do play

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Image Taken on 19 Feb 2006 at 08:10 Image of day on 23 Feb 2006

There are scapes all over the place in the grass. From this image it looks like it is used for bedding.

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Image Taken on 18 Sep 2010 at 05:08 Image of day on 11 Nov 2010

Finally got carried off after about 4 days. We suspect it was bitten up by a fox or badger we didn't see, but it's a sharp variety and it didn't eat it all.

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Image Taken on 25 Oct 2011 at 07:26 Image of day on 10 Dec 2011

As animals feed up for the winter, almost everything, including rabbits normally content with grass, is carrying off pieces of fruit.

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Image Taken on 16 Oct 2006 at 19:29 Image of day on 29 Oct 2006

We don't often feature rabbits though they appear in many night images. But this one carrying off a whole small apple quite surprised us that they could carry something this big.

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Image of day on 08 Sep 2005

The Plum season is upon us, and there is a lot of 'waste' fruit too damaged for us to eat or store. A Kilogram or so of spoiled fruit attracts everything from butterflies to foxes. But mostly rabbits!

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Image Taken on 10 Aug 2011 at 07:07 Image of day on 21 Sep 2011

An influx of rabbits from the now ploughed meadows has done nothing to dampen their ardour. This rabbit was weeding a flowerbed for us, cramming grass into her mouth long after it seemed to be full.

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Image Taken on 16 Apr 2011 at 19:26 Image of day on 18 May 2011

We have had rabbits around us for the last 20 years, but can't remember seeing one obviously dust bathing, here in ash. Photographed by a 'trail camera' over a few seconds.

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Image of day on 23 Feb 2005

Rabbits contribute about a third of the pictures taken by the automatic cameras. This one with a mouth full of apple peel is a little more interesting than the usual head down eating or a blur of panic.

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Image Taken on 14 Aug 2017 at 19:39 Image of day on 28 Sep 2017

We think of Rabbits as primarily feeding on grass, but this one seems to enjoy a damson fruit, gone by the next frame.

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Image Taken on 17 Jun 2015 at 20:41 Image of day on 15 Aug 2015

The human un-shelled pea season is upon us. We put out the empty pods which rapidly vanish - this one into a baby rabbit.

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Image Taken on 31 Oct 2011 at 18:03 Image of day on 15 Dec 2011

Fieldmice (Wood Mice) normally run from anything larger than themselves, so this is an unusual paring of a Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) actively moving towards the rabbit. Other images and poor grooming of the rabbit suggests that it was very static and in the early stages of Myxomatosis (many rabbits here catch it, some recover)

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Image Taken on 12 Sep 2008 at 23:52 Image of day on 02 Oct 2008

A rabbit is giving this snail a close inspection, but the only risk to the snail is if the rabbit accidentally treads on it.

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Image Taken on 17 Oct 2010 at 18:06 Image of day on 17 Dec 2010

The apple looks rotten enough to be fermenting.
Drunken rabbit anybody - insects certainly do get drunk on fermented fruit!

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Image Taken on 07 Nov 2007 at 18:17 Image of day on 11 Dec 2007

This rabbit suggests a Rabbit form of 'Jessica' from the mixed Live & animation movie 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit'. We can't remember seeing a rabbit like this in thousands of (discarded) rabbit images.

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Image Taken on 14 Aug 2011 at 20:12 Image of day on 12 Oct 2011

But when Rabbits reach this size they are responsible for a lots of damage to young trees - hence the sea of plastic you see at new woodland and hedge plantings protecting the bark of saplings.

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Image Taken on 21 Oct 2024 at 18:09 Image of day on 28 Nov 2024

A Rabbit at the Meadow site shows us that although Rabbit have good all-round vision, they can't quite see behind them.
On the other hand Hares CAN see 360 degrees around as you can see in the second pic at the link http://www.moorhen.me.uk/imgofday/arch 2013 aug.htm#04

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Image Taken on 11 Dec 2022 at 03:46 Image of day on 08 Jan 2023

The cold weather has increased the incidence of Rabbits at the camera sites. This one appears at about 4 a.m. No Hares seen recently inside or outside our patch.

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