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Image Taken on 23 Sep 2015 at 19:35    Image of day on 23 Nov 2015

"This is MY carrot".
Note the broken whiskers on the left side (as we view it)


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Image Taken on 25 Apr 2007 at 19:06    Image of day on 14 May 2007

We don't often feature rabbits so here is a montage of an adult and a youngster.


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Image of day on 16 Dec 2005

A couple of rabbits nibbling the offerings. Typically half of our exposures include rabbits.


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Image of day on 30 Jun 2005

Although they dominate the photos taken at night (often over 100) we don't usually include rabbits unless they are being eaten by something. But this image of 4 at once trouping through the IR beam seemed appropriate.


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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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