Hawkcam update

[lblanchard]

They're getting bigger and more active:

Comments

[pameladean]

But still fuzzy!

Is that a dead rabbit in there?

P.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I suppose it could be, but given the urban environment it's more likely that it's a rat. Or a squirrel. Or even a kitten. However, if the hawk is hunting in the big park a mile or so up the road from the Franklin Institute, it could indeed be a rabbit.

Last weekend, a disoriented mother rabbit brought her kits, each of whom would have fit comfortably in a teacup, right to the front door of the Hampton Inn where we were staying. My stepson moved them back into the shadows of a planting bed, twice.

[pameladean]

It looks kind of plump for a rat, but perhaps you have very happy rats.

As for the disoriented mother, oh, dear. Not adapting to the urban environment as well as most rabbits.

The only baby-rabbit story I have involves watching slack-jawed as a family of four brought a laundry basket of baby rabbits into the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and prepared to release them. My companion went and got one of the staff workers, a young woman in her mid-teens, and she had to explain to them why they really could not do that.

We have had a rabbit population crash here, so I actually have crocuses.

P.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

The "urban environment" is a Hampton Inn recently carved from a western North Carolina hillside, so she hasn't had all that long to adapt. I think I'd consider wreaking mayhem on the Laundry Basket Family.