After what has seemed a rather hard winter for our local rabbit population there are signs that it is recovering, with plenty of freshly-dug holes in the banks beside the track which passes our house and, sad as it may seem, more first-hand evidence from....
....a sad corpse in the road.
The local hoodies were quick to take advantage of a meal but, when we passed it, we were fairly certain that it had been diseased - there has been myxomatosis in local populations in recent years.
Happily, when we walked further up the track we were surprised by the number of rabbits out enjoying the late afternoon sun.
The increase in rabbits is certainly good news for the buzzards, another species of local wildlife which has seemed to be having a very hard time.
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