Scooter

[mondhasen]

or Scoots!

I have named the rabbit kitten Scooter because of how quickly it disappears when it senses danger. The adults are used to us and just watch carefully, but the baby goes *poof* when it hears noises.

I did get a couple of decent pics of it today, and I posted them to my google photos share, here. Included are two vegetation shots which are where the little fellow vanishes into and presumably lives (I've seen the kit appear from the brush several times).

My favorite photo today-



Click to enlarge and you will see the tell-tale 'white spot' on the forehead indicating that this is an Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus).

Otherwise... I saw our first firefly last night, blinking up in the tree canopy (***-***-***). I love this time of year!

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Yay for happy, contentedly occupied buns. ^_^

The spot's indicative of that species? That's interesting. Surely, it must be a marker for others as well - I'd be very surprised to find any Eastern Cottontails here. Not that that'd be impossible, of course - there's lapinity in Australia, after all. =:)

Fireflies! Ah, I've still yet to see any. I recall from my Rough Guide to Malaysia that there's a particular cave that is/was renowned for its fireflies, but I didn't manage to get any further norther than KL. (Next time!)

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

There is something growing in the driveway that this little bunny loves, because that seems to be the main grazing ground for it: maybe new shoots of plants pushing through the packed dirt.

The 'spot' is mentioned in several books and on many sites as indicative of the species, though only half of the rabbits have the mark. I've read that our native species, the New England Wood Rabbit (Eastern Cottontails are not native), has a black spot, but both can have no spot and only autopsy can tell which is which...

I hope you get to see some fireflies. I wish we had a porch to watch them from (screened against mosquitos, of course).

[allaboutweather.livejournal.com]

I've only seen a few lightning bugs so far. Usually there are a ton of them, probably 60-70 in one person's yard alone! XD

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

Our little guys arrive in June and usually peter out by mid-August. The most I have seen together was in a corn field off of I-80 in Nebraska: hundreds and hundreds!

[allaboutweather.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I've seen a ton of mayflies (in August ironically) in South Dakota off I-90 before. XD

When'd you go to Nebraska, the Cornfield State? :O)

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

My dad and I drove to Colorado in the summer of 1977. We were visiting relatives on his side of the family :o)

[allaboutweather.livejournal.com]

That long ago? Wow, that was when you were my age! XP

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Cute thing.

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

Adorable to watch: life's little pleasures :o)