The farmer keeps some rather good-looking sheep in the field just up the track from us, grazing quite unconcernedly with an increasingly large number of rabbits. Surprisingly, while some of the rabbits' burrows are around the edges of the fields under cover of the hedges, some are right out in the middle. Even more surprisingly, several of the rabbits occupying them....
....have patches of white fur around the front part of their bodies. This can't be a helpful evolutionary development when, high above, there are....
....buzzards wheeling but maybe the rabbits are getting away with it because, at the moment, there seems only to be one pair of the raptors in our skies.
There are definitely more rabbits in the fields these days but, unfortunately, this means that more of them are venturing into our road and eating our garden plants. One neighbour has just laid a very fine turf lawn which is much appreciated by the rabbits.
On my way to work I pass through a village whose rabbit population are distinctive in their appearance. An escaped pet rabbit bred with a wild rabbit and the introduced genes produce unique specimens year after year, no two the same. No doubt, you will find the same interesting colourations in the generations to come, adding amusing interest to your daily excursions.
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