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Mammals - Rabbit Page 7
Image Taken on 29 Sep 2024
at 06:27 Image of day on 10 Nov 2024
Over 7 minutes this Rabbit worked their way along the log on Round Mound.
The Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) (top left) finally put his head out of the 'mammal hole' as the Rabbit departed.
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Image Taken on 01 Sep 2019
at 06:58 Image of day on 25 Oct 2019
Whoosh - 2 seconds of a Rabbit streaking across the grass margin to gain the
safety of our plot at the left. The Rabbit started running upon seeing us about
70m away to the right and reached 'peak speed' on the 'level' grass. Rabbit
shooters have been about for the last few weeks and by now any tolerance of
humans will be long gone.
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Image Taken on 01 Sep 2019
at 06:58 Image of day on 25 Oct 2019
A closer view of the speeding Rabbit.
Muybridge (the Victorian moving image photographer) might have loved this, and
then got how Horses run as completely wrong as the artists of the time!
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Image Taken on 01 Aug 2013
at 07:37 Image of day on 22 Sep 2013
"Run Rabbit, Run Rabbit, Run, Run, Run ..."
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Image Taken on 13 Aug 2017
at 17:28 Image of day on 28 Sep 2017
One normally thinks of rabbits nibbling the grass, but here a youngster picks a
stem to bite off and then consume lengthways all the way up to and including the
seed head.
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Ref: 20170928_d5c_20170813_1728_002-1729_008 rabbit selecting and eating grass stem and seeds 1-4 of 4 (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 09 Aug 2008
at 19:45 Image of day on 21 Aug 2008
This rainy night (7.5mm in the rain gauge) was soaking the few
creatures who decided to venture out. Examining the twisting of
various parts and the flying raindrops suggests this rabbit was
doing the classic twist and shake to shed some of the wet.
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Image Taken on 20 Jan 2013
at 00:12 Image of day on 07 Mar 2013
Rabbit standing guard over remains of a carrot?
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Image Taken on 07 Jan 2026
at 17:20 Image of day on 20 Feb 2026
We don't remember previously seeing a Rabbit with back arched to a concave position.
The legs seem to be stationary so we guess the Rabbit is having a stretch.
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Image Taken on 03 Feb 2016
at 00:01 Image of day on 07 Mar 2016
Handbrake Turn?
We really can't work out how the rabbit managed to get it's
legs into this tangle. Oh to be that flexible. Was it making
an escape from the fox at one minute past midnight?
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Image Taken on 06 Dec 2024
at 06:14 Image of day on 12 Jan 2025
2 Rabbits visit the Meadow site shortly before 'sunrise' - or what
would be sunrise if the weather wasn't an almost continuous overcast.
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Image Taken on 02 Sep 2013
at 19:32 Image of day on 07 Nov 2013
An alert Rabbit - Looking forwards but listening backwards!
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Image Taken on 23 Aug 2015
at 00:26 Image of day on 25 Oct 2015
The summer invasion of young rabbits is upon us, all
looking so innocent. This one has to be named 'Buttercup'.
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Image Taken on 09 Dec 2024
at 07:16 Image of day on 12 Jan 2025
Its a shame that animals are most remembered and identified by their physical defects.
But is nice to catch up with this old 'friend' that we call Three-ears after an accident of
some sort several years ago almost completely split one ear.
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Image of day on 15 Jul 2005
This is a time of year for moths triggering the IR beam (mostly out
of frame so you get 'nothing'). Here we have added to an image of
a rabbit + one moth a number of other moths from other frames to make
this montage of several species. None are good quality but they
are all 'real'.
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Ref: 20050715_d3e_20660 + 4 others fb1 rabbit with moths montage 2005jul12_22-31-06(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 18 Sep 2016
at 19:24 Image of day on 07 Nov 2016
We don't normally show you Rabbits with Myxomatosis even though we see lots of
images on our cameras at this time of year. Many recover from less severe
attacks, but this one is as bad as it gets. The rabbit is (at least temporarily)
blinded by the swellings but alive. It has found this piece of pear to eat at
the left end of the log ...
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Image Taken on 18 Sep 2016
at 19:29 Image of day on 07 Nov 2016
... but 5 minutes later the Rabbit meets it's end in the jaws of a Fox. We see
no signs of it even struggling, and this may be a merciful release for the
suffering Rabbit.
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Image Taken on 05 Jan 2020
at 22:42 Image of day on 27 Feb 2020
The picture on the left (taken 5 Jan 2020) show a Rabbit stricken with
Myxomatosis.
A month later we see the same rabbit (confirmed by ear damage detail) apparently
recovered save for the few scars showing in the facial fur.
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Image Taken on 21 Oct 2017
at 18:10 Image of day on 02 Dec 2017
Rabbit with carrot - just like endless illustrations in children's books.
Rabbits don't store food against future need, but then the grass they mostly
eat doesn't go away.
A leaf happens to have been falling at the moment of exposure just above the
Rabbits left front leg.
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Image Taken on 31 Oct 2025
at 04:08 Image of day on 24 Dec 2025
A Rabbit at the Woodland site.
Note the way one ear checks forwards while the other checks backwards.
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Image Taken on 15 Sep 2020
at 18:17 Image of day on 27 Oct 2020
At the same site this Baby Rabbit pays an early evening visit.
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