The Bunny's Tale/Tail

My husband and I have a rural acre in central Pennsylvania that is home to quite a few wild creatures. The eastern cottontails who hang out in our yard - members of the ancient and very well respected Bunzini tribe - are a perennial favorite.

In winter time, my husband tries to help out the bunnies by putting out snack trays for them beneath a small plastic table near the hedge they live under. The snacks typically consist of chopped peanuts and a few carrot slices.

He usually puts the snacks out around dusk, which is the time we often see them, shortly after 6 p.m. But there's sometimes a problem with either birds or rodents (yes, rodents) also coming to the tray to check it out. Apparently, everybody loves a nibble.

For some reason, he put the snack tray out early on this day, around 3 p.m. There were no birds about, and no rodents in daylight, and the neighbor cat was for once NOT sitting on a chair on the front porch, a thing he so often does.

First one bunny came, but it did so in a rather roundabout manner, like it was pretending it WASN'T interested at all, until BANG, there it was at the snack tray under the small table. Then a second, larger rabbit arrived. Sitting quite close together, they both enjoyed a little food, courtesy of my husband.

I didn't get any photos of the two bunnies together, but here is a shot of one of them, turned so its lovely little white cotton tail is facing us. What a sweet little bunny. I hope you have enjoyed this tale!

I wanted something with tale or tail in it, and so I picked a song from Sting's Ten Summoner's Tales. Here is If I Ever Lose My Faith In You.