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@jblue Well ... we had a fox walk past the dining room window this evening. This fox would be a candidate for "who wants a baby rabbit?"

(No phot, our foxes rarely stay still long enough for us to find a camera.)

@TimWardCam I feel you. All my pics of foxes are blurs.

@jblue I even built a foxcam out of a #raspberrypi. I got one blurred picture of half a fox - though one paw was actually in focus.

@TimWardCam just post it and say that was an intentional paw appreciation pic and everyone will like it

@jblue Well ... if I could find it ... must get round to organising my photos properly one of these years ...

@TimWardCam if it’s in an camera roll on your phone, you can search for it using text.

@jblue Nah, it's on my PC's hard drive somewhere ... I've got folders for "frogs" and "snake" but none for "fox", so it could be anywhere.

@Incognitim no!!!!! Last year a bunny hopped in behind me and didn’t leave, spent the whole night in the garage and ate down ALL of my seedlings including a year old ginko tree.

@jblue
Oh jeeeez! Bad bunny!!!
Maybe that Elmer Fudd wasn't so awful after all!

@Incognitim wait, I don’t want Elmer Fudd in my garage either….

@jblue
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@RainCityBunnies @jblue

Yep, you can't keep wild rabbits as pets. I once rescued a baby one, but we had to set it free.

@qwertzalotl @jblue
when I was a kid my family "hosted" two wild baby cottontails over winter (their nest was uncovered by the lawn mower, mom never came back); we set them free the following spring. they were wild indeed, never gentled, always frightened of us, really did a number on the woodwork in the room where they were kept. they're not domestic in any way, shape or form and belong in the great outdoors

@RainCityBunnies @jblue

It was quite similar here.Ours used to chew electric wire and pulled the wool from our carpet.

@jblue @qwertzalotl
mom has more trouble with rats munching her veggie beds than rabbits - rabbits are fairly easy to keep out, rats are pretty much impossible to keep out

@MartineBunny it’s a wild rabbit. It’s ok. I followed it out.

@jblue

If "your" rabbit comes back, make sure you get it its own #Fediverse account so we can keep track.

@MartineBunny

@bobjonkman @MartineBunny there are so many rabbits in my yard, I wouldn’t be able to keep track who is who. A better mastodon account would be the resident duck that lives at my house. She’s such a weirdo. She follows you around, likes to sit on the roof and humph at walkers-by, comes waddling as fast as she can if you turn on the hose bc she likes a gentle shower and if the drakes bother her, she’ll literally fly right at you. The drakes veer away.

@jblue

A #MastoDuck account! Make it so!

@MartineBunny

@bobjonkman @jblue

@bobjonkman I’m actually doing a food security project that I will organize on here into three main threads that will be pinned at the top to make it easier and fun to read.

Is this the eastern black walnut? Most species of walnut release chemicals in their roots that inhibit growth of other plants. The eastern black is less potently anti-social. Otherwise I’d consider growing it. There are trees around but it was a low yield year last year too.

I don't really know what kind of walnut tree it is. But nothing will grow under it, even grass has a miserable time of it (but, less mowing for me). I read clover should work, but none of the clover seed appeared to take.

Everything Wikipedia knows about Eastern Black Walnuts seems to match, so that's probably what I have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juglans_nigra

@jblue

@bobjonkman if you would like to grow something and use that space, you can have planters or raised beds. They will need plants that like shade.

Partridge berry (Mitchella repens) might grow under an oak but it is super tiny. Super cute, but tiny. It’ll need really mulched composted soil. (It’s forest growing.)