Bunny

[svalli]

I should have posted this on the common garden pests, since this Brown Hare may have eaten our apple three branches during winter and my crocuses this spring. Now it was happy to just munch some grass on our backyard.

[Timmah!]

http://rabbithuntingonline.com/recipes/

[dustdevil]

That is one mangey looking rabbit. Your apple tree branches were probably eaten by something bigger, such as a deer. Squirrels and rabbits both like flower bulbs.

[beeman]

Originally Posted by dustdevil

That is one mangey looking rabbit. Your apple tree branches were probably eaten by something bigger, such as a deer. Squirrels and rabbits both like flower bulbs.

It's possible, but Rabbits and Hares both will ring bark fruit trees. To date we've lost 2 Pear, 2 Plum trees and half a blueberry bush.
Now the BB gun is working on all the wild life.

[svalli]

Originally Posted by dustdevil

That is one mangey looking rabbit.

That is the summer fur of European Brown Hare. These guys are not cute fluffballs like Cottontail Rabbits.

Originally Posted by dustdevil

Your apple tree branches were probably eaten by something bigger, such as a deer. Squirrels and rabbits both like flower bulbs.

We do not have deer in the city, some occational moose will wander in the city sometimes. The hares do eat tree bark and twigs during winter, when the snow covers all grass. Hare's body is about 2 feet long and when it stands on the hind legs, it can reach quite high. Last winter snow was so thick that the hares had easy access to the apple tree branches. We had a lot of hare tracks and droppings around the trees. Also the flower bed where we had spring bulbs had some pelletized fertilizer left where the flower used to be.

Our squirrels are tiny and do mainly eat conifer seeds.

[remy]

Originally Posted by dustdevil

That is one mangey looking rabbit. Your apple tree branches were probably eaten by something bigger, such as a deer. Squirrels and rabbits both like flower bulbs.

Rabbits will eat branches of apple trees(and other shrubs like roses too) when the snow cover is high. I had my tree trunk wrapped, but too much snow fell last winter, and they ate all the bark high up where all the branches start and I lost my tree. It is easy to tell who was eating in the snow when the tracks are there.
Remy

[akgardengirl]

They do eat the bark off spruce trees here and also the needles when they are really hungry. My friend had a problem with that on the Kenai peninsula where there is an explosion of the hares.
Sue

[Worth1]

Looks like a Jack Rabbit which is really a Hare.
Rabbits are not Hares and Hares are not Rabbits.
When a hare has babies they are located in different nest's so the predators wont get all of the babies.
A Rabbit keeps all of its babies in one nest.

I gotta a really good Jack Rabbit chili recipe if anybody wants it.

Worth

[svalli]

If that hare goes to eat my potted peppers, I'll need that chili recipe.

We can't shoot or hunt in the city, but I hope we have time to go hunting in the country side when the season opens. Roasted hare is delicious.

I did not know before that the European Hares were introduced to US. Luckily they have not become any real pests. Whitetail deer have been introduced to Finland in similar way in 1930's. Now there are about 30 000 of them and the population keeps growing. I do not think that it is a really good thing after seeing what they do and trying to keep them away in my garden in Wisconsin. Soon we will have also deer munching the apple trees with the Jack Rabbits.

[Timmah!]

"If that hare goes to eat my potted peppers, I'll need that chili recipe."
http://rabbithuntingonline.com/recip...bit_recipe.htm or

http://rabbithuntingonline.com/recip...bit_recipe.htm

[dustdevil]

Light finally goes on!!!...Remydew, now that you mention it, I remember rabbits using the snowbank trick to get to my burning bushes that have a wire fence around them.

I still think Svalli's hare is mangey and could use the benefit of sauna...

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by dustdevil

Light finally goes on!!!...Remydew, now that you mention it, I remember rabbits using the snowbank trick to get to my burning bushes that have a wire fence around them.

I still think Svalli's hare is mangey and could use the benefit of sauna...

You should see that critter in the winter.
The arctic fox looks bad right now too.

winter and summer


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[Worth1]

Originally Posted by dustdevil

Light finally goes on!!!...Remydew, now that you mention it, I remember rabbits using the snowbank trick to get to my burning bushes that have a wire fence around them.

I still think Svalli's hare is mangey and could use the benefit of sauna...

You should see that critter in the winter.
The arctic fox looks bad right now too.

winter and summer




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[Worth1]

Originally Posted by dustdevil

Light finally goes on!!!...Remydew, now that you mention it, I remember rabbits using the snowbank trick to get to my burning bushes that have a wire fence around them.

I still think Svalli's hare is mangey and could use the benefit of sauna...

You should see that critter in the winter.
The arctic fox looks bad right now too.
summer




winter

[Timmah!]

I think some long term marinating is in order.