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I suffer from baby love. Baby animals, baby birds, baby humans...I love babies.
Though these babies are now grown and gone, I just had to share.
This summer, a mama rabbit decided to make her nest in our backyard. If you ever see a little patch of grass clippings that looks fairly deliberate and you didn't place said clippings there, be sure to peek underneath before you mow the lawn. This is what you might find! The mama rabbit digs a little burrow and lines it with fur she pulls from her underside. After she has her little ones, she covers them up with the grass clippings from the hole she dug. Mama rabbit comes to feed them in the early morning hours and again in the evening, but otherwise these little guys are on their own. They are almost bald and eyes sealed tight when they are born. At about day 5, they have fur and open eyes and are irresistibly cute. By day 8/9 they barely all fit in the little nest. And by day 11, they had left the nest and lived under our deck for awhile.
I like to think any little bunnies I see nearby are actually "our" babies coming back to say hello. I am hoping for another nest next year!
Oh baby love...