Bunny poo everywhere!

It's been a week. I get triggered by the images of traffic on the highway, and the honking on the news. It makes everything much more difficult to deal with. I'm still arguing with Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) about back taxes we purportedly owe. It just wears me down.  I shall turn to my challenge with the cottontail rabbits. 

 It's been my challenge to capture the eastern cottontails on the trailcam. They are very nocturnal here, from what I can see (or not see)! You can spot them by their distinct tracks and their round, beige scat. 

I went outside for my walkabout in my snowshoes. We'll have lots of fertilizer in the spring...

I went into the backyard, following their tracks. There were lots of clues. The bunnies nibble on the spring buds, full of nutrients, as the flora prepares for the melt. They left a lot of scat behind!

These were all clues... and I found one rabbit hole! We've two bunnies, who don't appear to get along, perhaps there is another? Anyway, this is the hole Groundhog 📹Fred used to use. Very convenient for bunnies.

 

They have been travelling outside the back door. I set up a camera there. All I captured was a few birds, and Oregano, our feral feline friend.

This camera  didn't catch any bunnies, although they are clearly running here, with many tracks in the snow. It captured me, putting out the garbage at 6:30 a.m. Monday, and you can see the delay. I'd already walked across the path and it didn't trigger until I was nearly gone. 

There are lots of deer in the dark:  

Front yard's wascally wabbits! 

The camera caught me, again. Still no cottontail bunnies...

I set the camera up on the back deck. Hustling outdoors in the morning, I watched a cottontail running across the path, but the trailcam isn't sensitive enough to grab a video. You'll have to imagine it hustling along my snowshoe track, to its den.

You can see the  eastern cottontail jumping down the snowbank, and then another clip of it hopping along my snowshoe tracks. I make tracks in order for them to more easily deliver our propane.

Well, we had 2.5 mm rain yesterday, and 5 cm snow overnight. The old white pine branches lay heavily burdened with snow. The temperature has fallen. I hope the trees don't lose branches. I'll hustle out later to use the roof rake on them to alleviate the burden.