The clearing rests in song and shade.
It is a creature made
By old light held in soil and leaf,
By human joy and grief,
By human work,
Fidelity of sight and stroke,
By rain, by water on
The parent stone.
~ Wendell Berry
(This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems)
It seems like it’s been raining and dreary for the past couple of weeks — we even turned the heat on a couple of times. But we’ve been seeing a lot of interesting creatures outside our windows, like this baby bunny I caught with my camera. One morning I saw two opossums scrounging around in the leaf litter for food, and another time I saw a coyote trotting across the back yard.
One day when returning from grocery shopping we were very excited to find four fledgling Carolina wrens trying out their wings on the wax myrtle branches in our front yard. And those darling Carolina chickadees who nested in our birdhouse had some little ones, too. They flit about so quickly I can’t count them but there are at least three and I got to see a parent feeding one of them.
And one delightful afternoon Kat and I designed a dragon garden to fill in the unused birdbath in the front yard. 💜
The baby bunny is so cute, but I really hate when their mamas put nests in my back yard. The Monk just can’t resist chasing them … and catching them. Then I have to call the vet and worry the rest of the day, watching to be sure he’ll be okay after ingesting things he shouldn’t. Sigh. Nature can be so cruel.
It made my day when I opened the curtain to see that little bunny right outside my window. ♡ I do worry about its safety as we do have a few loose dogs in our neighborhood — the owners don’t seem to think leash rules and laws apply to them. That must be so awful for you to see and you can’t really blame Monk for doing what comes naturally to him. Sigh.
Baby bunnies are so cute, this one is adorable!
I thought so, too! So much fun to watch.
The bunny sure is cute! They are vegetarians and like to eat hay and greens. My two neighbors and I had one living in our front yards a week before Easter. I called it the Easter bunny. I have not seen it in a couple of weeks. It must have hopped along to the grass is greener yards! 😉
This one was definitely getting his share of greens! That must have been very nice to see your Easter bunny visiting for a few days — I didn’t see this one again. I hope he didn’t become a meal for the opossum(s) I’ve recently seen. It’s probably a good thing I don’t see everything that goes on out there. 😉
The baby bunny is adorable. We had a baby bunny in our yard last year that we enjoyed watching, but I haven’t seen any here this year.
It was so much fun opening the curtain to see a baby bunny right outside my window. I watched him eating his greens for the longest time.
Cuties both – the bunny and your granddaughter!
Bright spots in my day!
Your bunny reminds me to see the world through a child’s eyes. I bet Kat is good company for you!
When I see a bunny I think of the adventures of Peter Rabbit and how much my daughter enjoyed those Beatrix Potter books. Kat is delightful company!
That bunny is so sweet Barbara – how nice to photograph it from your window where it is not easily spooked. Lots of wildlife coming your way these days – the opossums were probably a surprise, as was the coyote. We have both in the neighborhood from time to time, but I have not seen any lately and thankfully no evidence of wildlife in my backyard. How lucky you are to be seeing all the Spring babies – you have a window to the world of nature, without risking seed ticks or dealing with heat and humidity, or that pesky rain. The former birdbath turned into a garden is very cute!
The opossums were a surprise and I’m still kicking myself that I didn’t go get the camera because they did linger a while. The coyote was gone in a flash, however, no way I would have had time to get the camera. I’ve been guilted in to not feeding the birds for the summer because of bear sightings in the county, so now I’m missing my birds. Some do stop by for the birdbath, but not too often. I can’t wait until November to hang out the feeder again, and go outside without worrying about ticks. Might be a long summer, but the deer are visiting more often, and if things go as they did last year I might be seeing a fawn or two soon.
I have done that too Barbara – sometimes I have my camera on me, but think “do I take it out of the case?” I’ve been taking my small camera with me along with the DSLR. Sunday I came face-to-face with a doe in the bushes. I’d have never gotten a shot with the big camera, but I got a bit of a blurry shot with the small camera before she took off down the road. They are too quick for you. I saw the cutest video of a baby opossum getting fed yogurt and oatmeal the other day – it was so cute. I hope you get to see a fawn or two. Leave your camera in a handy spot to grab it, (sometimes easier said than done).
A baby opossum getting fed yogurt and oatmeal sounds adorable! And bumping into the doe in the bushes must have been exciting! I do keep the camera pretty handy, but when the opossums came around I must have been so surprised in the moment that grabbing the camera just didn’t register. Maybe next time. Interesting that they are the only marsupials found in North America.
It was an adorable video Barbara. I saw a bumper sticker on a car once with a picture of an opossum and it said “I brake for the only marsupials in North America.” There was a cute picture of an orphan fawn on Nottingham Nook the other day. It would not take a bottle of milk, so they put some milk in a bowl and it was lapping it up with milk dribbles all over its face. The doe in the bushes was exciting. I was more surprised than she was as she kept munching on leaves like “whatever, another human who wants my photo.” She ambled away and had legs as long as a moose, unless it was the angle of the camera.
Baby bunnies are meant to be photographed. I’m smiling at this one. The birdbath reno is clever.
Thank you, Ally — the dragon garden is attracting a lot of attention. Photographing the bunny was making me smile, too. 🙂