Baby Bunnies!

As I was washing some dishes today, I looked outside and saw my tulips are starting to bloom. Already one of my hyacinth bloomed last week, so you can imagnie my exictment to see 100 tulips blooming! I seriously planted only about 20 bulbs 3 years ago, and now I have huge crops of 10+ tulips per planting. Pretty cool.

So while I'm out there admiring, I decide to check out what else is peeking thru. I see my Iris's are about ready to peek up, as well my huge Wal-Mart special Lilly that bloomed with over 20 heads last year (started out as 3). That same year, 2 years ago, I had also bought some Oriental Lilly's from a local grower, paying about $20 each, I was sorrily dissapointed last year when they hardly bloomed more than 5 heads. So as I notice those two I had planted peeking thru the mulch, I scanned over and to my amazement, look at what I found....

BABY BUNNIES!!!!

At first I didn't know exactly what they were. As I had run outside to admire my tulips, I saw a huge crow leave the yard, and he had actually been in the grass near my flower bed, which I initially thought was freaky. Now I know WHY. Bastard! As soon as I saw this little moving nest of animals, I ran in the house seraching for my camera and yelling to Tom with excitement that I had "found a nest of babies in my flower bed, and they look like puppies or something!"

Tom took one look and said BUNNIES. Sure enough, look at their ears. So we have a nest of wild baby bunnies and a jerk-ass crow towering above. I snapped some pics, making sure to use my zoom and not get too close, and ran back in the house to get my phone. I called my vet, my very trusted resource, and learned that Mama will only come twice a day to her babies, we should not touch the nest (of course), and that wild bunnies are illegal to keep as pets and are much different than domesticated bunnies as house pets. I asked about this mean ol' crow flying from the tree tops and power lines. She said to tie plastic bags to our fence which surrounds the flower bed. (this is the chain link fence to the dog run). She said it won't deter Mama bunny, but hopefully it will deter the crow from flying near. I went out and tied up three plastic bags, and I just about want to tie them up all along our wooden fence in the back yard as a warning to KEEP OUT! At any rate, here are the rest of the pics I took...

The vet also said the babies will mature in about 3 weeks and start hopping away. Besides that crow, our other challenge is Theo. We have to really watch him in the backyard now. Usually we say encouraging words to him to get him out there to do his business. Those encouraging words are usually "Look! Bunnies! Go get 'em!" Yeah, not going to be saying that for the next month!