I was going to say “in the weeds” but it is all salad to a Marsh Rabbit.
Magnolia Plantation & Gardens, Charleston, SC
March 30, 2023
Marsh Rabbit In The Salad
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Marsh Rabbit
The dike across the big pond at Donnelley WMA was rife with Marsh Rabbits the last time I went.
I lost count around twenty.
I didn’t see this one until I was right beside him; I was more surprised he didn’t bolt.
This one did. Smart rabbit.
Donnelley Wildlife Management Area, SC
July 3, 2022
Marsh Rabbit With Good Salad
This Marsh Rabbit found a patch of grass that he didn’t want to give up. He saw me before I saw him when I first passed by and I jumped when he sprang into the water at the edge of the marsh with a big splash.
I didn’t expect to see him again, thinking he’d either moved further from the trail where humans pass regularly or had been lunch himself for a nearby alligator after creating all that commotion.
To my surprise when I returned he had come out into the open to have some more of that grass. It didn’t look like much to me but he was consuming his salad with gusto.
Rabbits
I spotted these two rabbits about a half mile apart. The first one is a Swamp, or Marsh, Rabbit. I’m basing the identification on an educational sign posted near this location and that he is sitting in water / swamp vegetation.
I frequently spot one or more in the swamp edge or on one of the small islands just off the trail on the way to the heron rookery. They can move pretty fast even in the reeds and rarely do I see enough of one to get a photograph.
The second one was in a small grassy area behind one of the garden ponds. Until I compared the images I thought this was probably another Marsh Rabbit, but now see some differences. Leporidae is the family of rabbits and hares and with over 60 species I’m going to leave it at “Rabbit.”
