30 January 2007

Feral animals shouldn't look so cute

The rabbits around here are breeding like rabbits at the moment - they're everywhere! I saw these characters this morning while standing on the verandah taking photos of the sunrise. The bitumen you can see is the driveway, not a public road, so they weren't in any danger of being run over. Not that they seemed worried by the possibility anyway... particularly not the one reclining in the first photo. At first I thought it must have been injured - its back legs broken or something. But no, it really was just lazing there.

And these are all separate individuals, by the way (and there are three in the third photo, in case you miss one or two). There were eight of them altogether.

Photo by Deirdre: rabbit reclining in the middle of the driveway, as though it was sunbaking or something :)
Photo by Deirdre: a rabbit sitting up alert, ears pointing up like a startled deer - if deer's ears actually DO stick up when they're startled... it sounded good, that's all
Photo by Deirdre: 3 rabbits of various sizes
Photo by Deirdre: a baby rabbit sitting in the garden and looking very cute; eagle-eyed viewers might notice macadamia shells in the background being used as garden mulch