A Surprise Critter Visitor on the Deck
By CarolDM
@CarolDM (203396)
Nashville, Tennessee
February 16, 2021 10:43am CST
Put on my boots to carefully go out and feed the birds earlier. We had ice all day yesterday and some snow today. Making the deck and other surfaces very slippery.
I came back in and started snapping photos from behind the patio door. A small downy woodpecker was out there for a long time eating peanuts I scattered on the deck.
There is a chair they like to get under and eat the peanuts. I was snapping photos when all of a sudden I saw this critter. A rabbit! So surprised as he also took a peanut and hopped off the deck with it. They have to eat too.
I know peanuts are not good for rabbits. They are very high in fat content. But these critters have to eat whatever they can find during the winter.
Photo is mine with the ice, snow and icicles.
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@LowRiderX (22901)
• Serbia
16 Feb 21
@CarolDM Oh how nicely you caught him in the frame
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
16 Feb 21
@LowRiderX I had the camera all focused and waiting on a bird. You just never know.
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@LowRiderX (22901)
• Serbia
16 Feb 21
@CarolDM But it's interesting how unexpectedly a good photo turned out, since you didn't wait for the rabbit to take photos
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@FourWalls (86680)
• United States
16 Feb 21
Elmer Fudd wasn't anywhere around, was he?????
Sweet animal.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54715)
• United States
16 Feb 21
I love the bunny rabbits . We have so many here.
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
16 Feb 21
I throw celery tops, lettuce, various vegetables beneath the porch. This gives our wild bunnies some food:)
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
16 Feb 21
@CarolDM The wildlife survives every winter, but I always feel it's my duty to help out! lol
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@popciclecold (40214)
• United States
16 Feb 21
Aww, how sweet. You are so correct, they have to eat too. What a great photo.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
16 Feb 21
The dear critters can manage outside, but welcome your porch Carol
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
18 Feb 21
How sweet was that, I didn't know rabbits came out in the winter.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
18 Feb 21
@CarolDM we had our own bunny 2 years ago but last year he was missing.
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
18 Feb 21
@BelleStarr So sad. We had them growing up.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
18 Feb 21
I would never have guessed that to be a rabbit. We have plenty around here in the summer but I guess I've never seen their noses puked into the ground.
I was guessing raccoon or even possum. Was I ever off base.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
18 Feb 21
@CarolDM I saw it when the page loaded. I was trying to figure out where the ears were while looking at its eyes
. It's an obvious rabbit now that I see him correctly.
. It's an obvious rabbit now that I see him correctly.1 person likes this
@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
17 Feb 21
@DocAndersen Lucky you, have not see the sun in days.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
17 Feb 21
@CarolDM those are the best - took a sunrise this morning and surprise, there was actually SUN!
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@RasmaSandra (98005)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
17 Feb 21
That is such an adorable rabbit, The squirrel that comes to eat bread is getting greedy, He usually has to share with birds and today when all of the bread for the day was gone that squirrel still came running along on the cable to check things out,
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@RasmaSandra (98005)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Feb 21
@CarolDM the squirrel a little black one that come to eat bread on my porch always runs back along the cable in the late afternoon just to be sure there is no more food on the railing. He just has to know,
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
18 Feb 21
@RasmaSandra I love those black squirrels, so pretty.
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