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A Back Bay bunny
By adamg on Wed, 07/03/2013 - 11:34am
Mambo Miam Miam photographs an actual rabbit hopping along the Commonwealth Avenue Mall.
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Bunnies In Bunches
This year is the first time I have ever seen rabbits in Watertown (I've lived here for close to 20 years now.) I don't know if I just wasn't paying enough attention before.
I see one or two a day, darting across a lawn or whatever. Anyone else notice a proliferation of bunnies this season? If so, any good reason for why now and not other years? Have we lost a bunny predator?
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bunnies
Spotted in Savin Hill park marauding! Well, maybe not, but just give them time!
It's wabbit season!
Both yesterday afternoon and the day before, I've walked down Boylston St. past the Victory Gardens in the Fens and spotted several half-grown rabbits--6 of them yesterday!--peacefully nibbling the grass just a few feet from the sidewalk and all the folks heading to Fenway Park.
Duck season.
n/t
Suddenly here...
...in the Coolidge Corner area of Brookline too.
Saw a bunny hop out from
Saw a bunny hop out from underneath a bush on Centre St. in JP last week. First time ever spotted by me in > 40 yrs. outside the Arboretum.
Have seen plenty of skunks, racoons and possums but never a rabbit before.
The little bastards are swarming the area around Biogen
in Kendall Sq, usually evening-late evening. They seem to be breeding like rabbits.
Looks like a rat to me.
Looks like a rat to me.
Last year...
Last year was bunny season in West Cambridge, especially in the spring. Then in midsummer they all disappeared. Haven't seen any this year yet; maybe they all went to Watertown -- supposedly that's where all the action is this year...
But we've seen them on and off in our neighborhood for at least 15 years now. Along with possums, skunks, raccoons, turkeys, coyotes, hawks, you name it.
Just realized, I mentioned a couple of wabbit predators there...
maybe the hawks will get the
maybe the hawks will get the rabbits. I used to see red-tailed hawks in the Back Bay perched on fire escapes and railings. I assume the hawks got a lot of the squirrels on the Commonwealth Ave mall and along the Esplanade and are now hunting rats. The hawks could carry off a young rabbit.
Hard to say
if they're smart they won't bother though. Pigeons are less work and don't really fight back.
Squirrels and rabbits could mean injuries.
Maybe tired of eating pigeon
Maybe tired of eating pigeon every night?
pigeons are usually alert and
pigeons are usually alert and have fast reaction time. They can turn faster than a hawk. Not an easy catch for a big heavy hawk. I've watched hawks chase pigeons, and once the pigeon is aware of the hawk, the pigeon can out turn and evade the hawk.
Sure, they're cute -- until this happens
Rabbits are cute - until they start running in herds. See here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Od92391upY
Bunnys in Back Bay!
I saw a bunny yesterday in th bushes on Marlborough street between Clarendon and Dartmouth streets. It was a gray bunny. It looked scared :-(