Well here is you bunny update – also known as my nemesis.
We had one go down a week ago perhaps. I was watering the front garden of the Mitchell House when a colleague came over to talk about the plants in the front garden – a riot of orange and hot pink and a touch of yellow – William Mitchell would have loved it! As we were talking, I looked up and over at the path leading to the Vestal Street Observatory and I saw a pile of fluff. Going over to investigate – though I already surmised what it was – we found a stiff baby bunny. I am assuming our Red-tailed hawks may have tried to seize him and possibly were frightened off in the process.
Then yesterday, I found another baby bunny that had been hit by a car.
Now, I know I rail against them but it is sad. I removed them when I found them and they are now covered over and becoming one with the earth.
Never fear – we just spied another tiny one that I did not know existed. Like his predecessors, he has been warned about eating “my” plants – and about the other dangers that lurk.
JNLF
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