The Buzzard and the Crow

We live near the Downs – an open area now South Down National Park and noticed more and more buzzards congregating on field fences and wheeling in the sky and fewer and fewer wild rabbits. Yesterday the sky was empty, blue and sunny than the noise of a very angry bird, a crow got closer […]

Rabbits

Since wrote this – the bunny population in our garden is much less – we have seen crows attack the baby rabbits in our garden even thou we try and scare these birds away and hear foxes at night. There are few squirrels and deer don’t often walk through in the early morning. But we […]

Tale of benjamin bunny and a vagabond cat

Looking to top of our garden in the evening, could see two, three rabbits almost doing leap frog, running and almost playing tag among the apple trees. Looking closer noticed an enormous rabbit hole had appeared near the hedge by the road. almost expected to see a row of washing and a white picket fence […]

Lettuce

“Lettuce is low in Sodium, and very low in Saturated Fat and Cholesterol. It is also a good source of Thiamin, Vitamin B6, Iron and Potassium, and a very good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Folate and Manganese” nutritiondata.self.com Vitamin B6 is naturally present in many foods. The body needs […]

Plants that rabbits wont like

“Looking for some ideas for an area of our property where rabbits are living – are there some plants that they will avoid?” “Rabbit seem to hate mint, chives, thyme… most herbs… so interplanting them with your other flowers might make your garden less attractive. Also if you plant a patch of Clover, that rabbits […]