Bunny Babies

You might say that the Easter bunny left us a couple of his relatives.

This past Friday morning Jennie spotted two baby rabbits in one of the window wells outside our house. (For those that don't know what a window well is, I'll explain. Our basement is below grade, yet we also have some windows to let light in. Outside our home, surrounding these windows is a semi-circular cutout of the ground around the window, with some metal present to retain the soil.) At the time we had wondered if the mother rabbit had placed them there for their safety. Jennie called the local Humane Society and the Natural History Museum for some advice. The folks at the museum recommended leaving them alone for a few days to see if they get out by themselves. If, after that time, they are still in the window well, we should get them out ourselves.

So, we had friendly wildlife just outside our home this weekend. Tonight I went to see how they were doing and to get them out of the window well. Alas, one of the rabbits had died. I purloined my daughter's butterfly net and pulled both of them out. The dead rabbit I threw into our garbage can, to be taken to the landfill with our other trash tomorrow morning. The live one I placed in our yard at about five feet away from the window well.

About an hour later, I went back outside to check on the little guy. He was gone.