Recumbent Rabbit
©Jennifer Tetlow – Recumbent Rabbit – Sandstone 14 x 6 x 6 inches
There are four favoured digging spots for the rabbits at my workshop, each showing regular fresh excavation and soil scattering. One is behind the greenhouse and leads under the hedgerow, another (shallow) is at my bonfire site, a third at the corner of, and into, my stone store shed, and the last out in the open grass.
©Jennifer Tetlow – Recumbent Rabbit – Sandstone 14 x 6 x 6 inches
This last one has been the most interesting recently as it has been blocked up, with diggings scratched from about a foot around the hole, and then obviously pressed flat. A casual glance would miss it, but I know it is there and inspect closely every day. When it has been wet the soil has gone into rolls and balls, which are then what fill the entrance, along with scraped old grass. Yesterday and today, the hole was only half obscured, I found a rabbit dropping nearby, and fur hairs stuck to the edges of the hole. Someone is going in and out.
©Jennifer Tetlow – Recumbent Rabbit – Sandstone 14 x 6 x 6 inches (detail)
All the signs are here that a mother rabbit has given birth to a litter – she’ll go in once or twice a day to suckle them and whilst away covers the nest to help prevent detection by predators. I look forward to seeing the family emerge.
In the meantime I’ve carved Recumbent Rabbit.
2 Comments
I surprised she dug her hole out in the open. that’s a sweet bunny sculpture.
I was surprised too Ellen, perhaps other factors come into play, like drainage, which way it faces, best grass, best earth? Perhaps it is just an area I don’t walk on so much!