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Early Easter Bunnies

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Last year we had a baby rabbit in our garden. Thought it was so cute till one night it eat all the leaves and new shoots off a new a David Austin rose that hubby had bought me for valentine’s called Generous gardener. Well I wasn’t feeling that Generous towards that rabbit by then and told it that if the rose didn’t survive then I would be looking up the recipe for rabbit pie πŸ˜‚. Put chicken wire around the rose and it survived.
Well, this morning saw that this year we had not 1 but 2 baby rabbits this year. Was lovely sitting in the conservatory watch them but might change my mind again when they start eating all my plants again πŸ˜‚


Boys saw them as well but since put grass seed down they not allowed in back garden but saying that I wouldn’t let the boys chase them.

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Ahhhh!

25 Mar, 2021

 

Lovely to see, Jen, especially as it’s Easter time too! So cute. At least it keeps the boys entertained at the window!
I’ll be hoping your plants don’t get nibbled too much!!!

26 Mar, 2021

 

cute as you say until they start nibbling our treasures.
A friend was delighted when she saw a badger in her garden, not so keen when it started digging up the lawn looking for worms!

Your boys are very good with lots of self control, dread to think what the neighbours dog would do if he saw a rabbit. ;o)

26 Mar, 2021

 

Hmm, cute to watch but not sure I would want rabbits in my garden. I bet you keep a close eye on them . . . :o)

26 Mar, 2021

 

Paul, it is lovely to see them πŸ˜€

Yorkslass, very ahhhh till they eat my plants πŸ˜‚

Kate last year by the end of spring I was getting fab up with it due to amount of damage and that was only one lol. Started going out into garden to spook it everytime I saw it πŸ˜‚

Seaburngirl, last year I was ready for a rabbit pie by end of spring lol, eat all the new growth off my hardy geraniums, all the flower heads off my primroses a d the rose was the last straw lol. Do feel for hour friend, we had moles again last year. We have a town Fb page and I asked on there for recommendation for a pest control/mole man. Didn't think there would be any problems as we are a farming community. Did get given a name of a really good guy who since has become a customer but also got so many private messages calling me a murderer, telling me to stop gardening and let my garden go back to nature that I was shocked. Didn't tell them that growing up I remember my father doing a Caspar Carrot and would sit in our garden with his Shotgun πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

Shirley, totally agree, cute to look at but when they get a bit bigger, they do so much damage that I will start doing what I did last year and bang on the window or just walk out into garden when I see them lol.

26 Mar, 2021

 

Its always a treat to see rabbits gambolling around especially babies but I wouldn't want them in my garden Jen, lovely to see the photo's though.x

26 Mar, 2021

 

They are cute but I hope they don't do too much damage for you.

26 Mar, 2021

 

Cute to watch Jen when they are tiny. We had a litter of six two years ago which appeared from a new hole made under the shed, they sunbathed and nibbled, got bigger and nibbled more. The thing about baby rabbits is they grow into big ones and do what rabbits do. The little ones think that your garden is their home it being all they know and sooner or later you are inundated! Holes get dug under the fences to get to the farmers field next door and these holes get bigger until they are fox sized and then you have another problem, especially if like us you have chickens.

26 Mar, 2021

 

Got 5 this morning!! Banging on the window doing nothing so Tim now calling me Elmer Fudd πŸ˜‚ as I'm now going out into garden clipping my hands to scare them off. Seem to have taken a real liking to my hardy geranium and nibbling all the leaves off. Seen main hole in hedge they coming through so going to block off today with chicken wire.

27 Mar, 2021

 

That should keep them out!

27 Mar, 2021

 

Fingers crossed that does the trick, Jen! 🀞
I do hope you’ve managed to have a snooze today to catch up on your sleep!

27 Mar, 2021

 

Well chicken wire didn't help, they just dug under it πŸ˜‚. So going to keep scaring them off everytime I see them which Tim is finding hilarious as I'm now banging on a busker but at least now when they see me open the door, they run away πŸ˜‚.

28 Mar, 2021

 

Aw that’s a pity, Jen! They really are persistently teasing you aren’t they!!! I think you are going to do what you say, keep chasing them away! You’re going to be on a very long shift aren’t you!

28 Mar, 2021

 

Lol Kate, at least they are becoming scared, last week you could walk within 6ft of them, now they run as soon as I open the door. Once the grass seed starts to grown so dogs allowed back out there, hoping the smell of dogs back out there will put the rabbits off.

29 Mar, 2021

 

You’re definitely getting there, slowly but surely, Jen! ☺️

29 Mar, 2021

 

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29 Mar, 2021

 

Oh Jen, at least your OH probably didn't say "Put a sign up saying NO RABBITS" which is what mine just did!! :o((

29 Mar, 2021

 

Lol, Shirley, I have only the last 3 weeks taken back doing the grocery shopping, bless Tim had been doing it since my stroke. He did say last week to pick up my own Easter egg from him as now he not doing shopping, he wouldn't get chance to get me one. Good thing is at least I get one I like πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚.

29 Mar, 2021

 

Jen, make it a big one - indulge yourself! :o))

30 Mar, 2021

 

Honeysuckle -not been bothered by rabbits but I dissuaded a mole from his progress across the lawn by stomping about over the tunnel. It seemed to work but it might have been a coincidence. There's one tunneling about at the bottom of the garden in the untidy bit - will stomp again if he turns North...

30 Mar, 2021

 

Shirley, I did πŸ˜‚

30 Mar, 2021

 

Excellent!! :o))

30 Mar, 2021

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