Tiny wild rabbit

This picture was taken in my back garden. You don't usually see rabbits out and about at such a young age. My guess is that it was the mother's first litter as females are very protective of their very young and do not let them out of the den so early. 

Rightly so because soon after I took the picture, the rabbit's sibling was attacked and killed by a magpie.

Blind wild rabbit - Myxomatosis

The young rabbits that we have been watching from our dining room window for about one month are now showing signs of myxomatosis.
Guessing that they started to venture outside their den when they were about two weeks old, they should be only about 6 weeks old.
Their eyesight deteriorated very quickly (within one week).
Their eyes are red, swollen and even runny. In the clip below, you can see that one of the siblings with a healthy eye.
You would not believe these are the same cute rabbits that I posted picture of recently.


Below are pictures of an older rabbit I took a few weeks ago with the same condition.

Rabbits in the snow

You might have probably noticed that after playing in the snow, long-haired dogs end up with snow balls stuck on their coat.
Well, I recently filmed a rabbit walking around in my back garden. When I viewed the clip later, I realised that it was actually biting off snow balls that had formed under its feet.
Have a look at the small clip below. Funny don't you think.

 

Look, all gone now: