Only occasionally get bunnies around here, too many predators, and deer keeping the underbrush thinned out. Two nights ago, I scared one up when bringing in some wood. Last night, I saw him again out in the open. Are rabbits generally nocturnal?
Not really nocturnal, more dawn and dusk like most prey animals. They live under my barn and my Sheppard protects them cause her mommy likes them
Couple hanging round the house- drives the springers crazy, they hang around because of the cover the evergreens provide vs hawks. Bob cat hanging in the neigborhood and plenty of feral cats from all the farms so bunny population isn't real high here- now if they would just concentrate on those dangburn chipmunks...........
I pick my springer up from my parents every night on my way home from work. Before I let her out of the car at home I have to scan the yard for rabbits and chase them off. No matter how dark it is, she will see them.
when i worked on a big farm estate. we used to go out at night on a full moon one would drive the pick up, and 2 would shoot the rabbits from from the back of the pick up,with shotguns, one night we shot 85 rabbits on grass fields,
Do you see tracks like this out your back door? All around house just hard to get good pics on snow..
Before PETA shows up with the game wardens......in England they are considered varmints and do a great deal of harm to the landscape.
I learned from an indian friend how to set out rabbit snares. Actually it was for snowshoe hare. It consists of a wire loop suspended from a branch over their runs in the snow. It works well if you check them before a fox or pine martin runs off with your rabbit and snare. When cottontails got into my garden at home and started eating my raspberry canes I set a few snares. It worked but I also caught a possum and a gray squirrel before I pulled them after the snow dropped enough to stop the rabbits from getting over my fence.
used to trap rabbits in homemade box traps when I was a youngin and lived in the city. And Yes, I would say they are nocturnal. We also hunted them at night with either a bow or a wrist rocket. We'd go from bird feeder to bird feeder and use the houses as cover. Lean out with the bow and shoot. This was all done in winter with snow cover which makes the rabbits easier to see when they are sitting below bird feeders. We used just cheap wooded target arrows and a shot usually meant a lost arrow. Hard to see where your shots went in the dark and hard to see the arrow once it was under the snow.
