A week or so ago I saw rabbit poo in my garden, we have lived here for 14 years and had not see any sign of rabbits in the area. A few days later I went to the kitchen to make dinner and there was the rabbit, I thought it was a domestic that had gotten loose because it was white, it was so cute we were going to catch it and maybe keep it as a pet, I named him Munch, because he went around the garden munching on the trees shrubs, grass.
Then hubbies friends said it could be a wild rabbit in it's winter coat, well....duh, we never even thought of that!
Took a bit of searching Google to find out that it is a Snowshoe Hare, Sharon had suggested that, and they are in our area. Guess we won't keep him as a pet.
Yesterday he hung out in the shrub all afternoon, cleaned his paws.
This morning he moved around quite a bit, got spooked by a Steller's Jay and ran for his life.
Checked out the snow pile by the patio where the jay had been.
For those of you that have never seen a Steller's Jay, they are beautiful birds that love to beg for peanuts.
He then sat in a mixed bed by the fence and rested all day.
