Interesting Experience with Cottontail Rabbits
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05/14/20 11:50 PM
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Now, don't accuse me of being in quarantine too long, or hitting the bottle, or anything like that...I saw something yesterday I have never seen nor heard of in my life.
I had just gone out in our backyard with our Jack Russel, just walking around, and I heard and saw a crow on the ground in our neighbor's yard. He was squawking his head off like they do when they are fighting and there was another one doing the same in the background. Through all the shrubs and stuff I could not see what he had on the ground, but I suspect it was a baby rabbit as our property is over-run with them this year. If it was a baby rabbit I assume it had been squealing. As I watched I saw 4-5 adult rabbits converging on the crow, like they were going in for a fight. As the rabbits moved in, the crow flew off, I assume with the baby rabbit. As I watched the rabbits all started moving back to the various brush and log piles they came from.
I have never seen cottontail rabbits do anything like that before. They literally looked like they were going in to fight the crow.
Moosetrot
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Re: Interesting Experience with Cottontail Rabbits
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Re: Interesting Experience with Cottontail Rabbits
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05/15/20 09:03 AM
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I've seen that behavior using a rabbit in distress call. Jack rabbits mainly. Three, four times.
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Re: Interesting Experience with Cottontail Rabbits
[Re: Moosetrot]
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Even the smaller birds will attack a bigger bird when they have young to protect nature looking out for its young.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
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Re: Interesting Experience with Cottontail Rabbits
[Re: Moosetrot]
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I have been attacked by a herd of mule deer does using bambi distress sounds for coyote.
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: Interesting Experience with Cottontail Rabbits
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Even the smaller birds will attack a bigger bird when they have young to protect nature looking out for its young. Yup I see that often with sparrows. They will chase hawks crows eagles and Falcons until their young is safe enough.
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Re: Interesting Experience with Cottontail Rabbits
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05/15/20 07:55 PM
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I've seen adult rabbits running around with crows harassing it. I just assumed there were baby rabbits involved. Crows aggravate everything in the wild!
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Re: Interesting Experience with Cottontail Rabbits
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05/15/20 10:04 PM
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We run hounds a lot.
Here recently I started posting my boys up on trails like I would if we were hunting. They are coming of age and I plan on taking them this year.
Anyway, dogs circled a rabbit back at the boys. The rabbit had nowhere to turn because of the way the boys were positioned. It was either turn back toward dogs or take on one of the boys.
It literally sized them up and went for the smallest of my 3 boys.
Laughed so hard it took me 30 minutes to stand up straight again.
Kid didn't know what to think of do. Lol, he had a cat tail in his hand. Just ran around in circles swinging at the rabbit like he mom was lighting his butt up.
I don't think he will ever be so glad again than he was then when the dogs caught up. LOL! good memories there..
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