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Image Taken on 16 Sep 2007 at 18:28    Image of day on 18 Oct 2007

Traditionally rabbits love carrots, but what's the chance of catching a pair of rabbits each carrying away a piece.


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Image Taken on 16 Nov 2008 at 20:43    Image of day on 11 Dec 2008

Ear-Ear (sorry)
We never know what is going to go down well, and we only included this in our weekly assortment email on a whim. But we got enough feedback that we thought we would include it here as well.


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Image Taken on 20 Aug 2019 at 20:48    Image of day on 12 Oct 2019

A Rabbit's tryst as darkness falls?


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Image Taken on 28 Mar 2006 at 06:26    Image of day on 03 Apr 2006

What these 2 rabbits are doing nose to nose is anybody's guess. Our is that they started at different end of the same piece of apple peel.


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Image Taken on 29 Jul 2008 at 05:15    Image of day on 14 Aug 2008

Rabbits have now replaced pheasants as the dominant species visiting the camera site 2. This is a genuine single frame of pair of rabbits possibly using the log like a 'kissing seat'. But then maybe we are just too romantic.


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Image Taken on 15 Mar 2020 at 06:34    Image of day on 06 Apr 2020

Rabbits can be both territorial and hierarchical. Here it looks like a little squabble gets out of hand, and the two combatants end up rolling at some speed down the quite steep mound still locked together. Probably about 2 seconds between these two frames.


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Image Taken on 28 Oct 2011 at 07:56    Image of day on 13 Dec 2011

We are starting to recognise 'whisker contact' as quite common. Here a couple of rabbits around a gloomy dawn


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Image Taken on 18 Oct 2013 at 04:21    Image of day on 14 Dec 2013

That's better - 2 young rabbits formation feeding.


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Image Taken on 14 Apr 2017 at 22:39    Image of day on 05 Jun 2017

Oh dear - a Rat makes the first of its now annual Spring appearances. Would a Rat attack a young Rabbit - a Google search suggests that the answer is 'Yes', but we saw this rabbit again later in the night.


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Image Taken on 30 Sep 2023 at 08:50    Image of day on 17 Nov 2023

Meat still clamped in one of the talons, the Red Kite makes their exit.


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Image Taken on 30 Sep 2023 at 08:50    Image of day on 17 Nov 2023

Next morning we spied this Red Kite on the same kill. The Kite grabs a lump of meat and powers their way away. The shadowed area is from the hedge just out of crop.


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Image Taken on 28 May 2010 at 19:20    Image of day on 30 Jun 2010

And what made them finally leave - a rabbit more interested than anything else - one nervous creature frightening off another!


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Image of day on 07 Oct 2005

Make up your own story ...


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Image Taken on 25 May 2013 at 09:00    Image of day on 06 Jul 2013

One rook is now continuing the attack - this montage photographed at about 5 fps - this montage spans about half a second.


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Image Taken on 25 May 2013 at 09:00    Image of day on 06 Jul 2013

The number of birds in pursuit reduces as the action moves away from the rookery.


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Image Taken on 17 Aug 2023 at 16:24    Image of day on 16 Oct 2023

Here is the start of a little story that we only know in parts. Here Roy is photographing something originally intended for the archive, having spotted a dead young Rabbit on the edge of one of the many holes in this mound.


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Image of day on 24 Jan 2017

Here is our pic from November 2000 of a Stoat killing and dragging away a decent sized Rabbit.
This was taken on an early Sony Digital camera with resolution of 0.75M Pixels (1024 x 768) that wrote the images to a 1.4MB floppy disk - about 6 images per disk at about 6 seconds a go. This predates USB or photo memory cards as more than prestige items. We are frequently staggered by how quickly digital imaging has advanced - 16 years from floppy disks to 128GB memory cards with about 10,000 times the capacity and about 100 times faster. Not to mention the cameras typically 30 times more pixels - though at the expense of quality in poor light. This old camera can still focus in light much dimmer than modern cameras can manage.


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Image Taken on 07 Dec 2008 at 19:10    Image of day on 31 Dec 2008

On 17 Dec 2008 we showed you a rabbit and mouse with the comment
'Obviously rabbits are not frightened of mice, unlike the proverbial Elephant.'
However looking at this image maybe its not true for all rabbits.


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