Summer

Summer is most definitely here!  I am freezing the bunnies' water bottles so they have colder water, and putting frozen bottles in the burrow, so they can cool down.  I am also putting crushed ice in the other water bottles twice a day.


My dad also gives them tons of herbs from the garden and veggies from the Farmer's Market daily, if not more often.


Yes, they are quite spoiled!

Mourning Dove Pics

As I said in the last post, my mom took pictures of the mourning doves.  Here they are!

They're so pretty!

Birds!

This isn't really related to the rabbits. But, there's a bird's nest on our back porch!


A few weeks ago, we discovered a nest on top of one of the columns on our back porch. We didn't see the birds, but my mom thought that the Buzz-Off! (our spraying mosquito system) that was right next to the nest would disturb the birds or possibly harm them. So, she got up there and dissembled the nest. A few days later, it was there again!


Then, we started seeing the bird show up in the nest, a mourning dove. After awhile, she stayed there all the time, so we figured she had laid her eggs. She's been there for at least a week now, and we just realized that her eggs have already hatched and the baby birds are actually pretty big! They're about as big as a computer mouse. The only reason we can see them now is that they're too big to fit completely underneath their mother now! There are two of them, and sometimes we'll see the mother feeding them! It's so cute!


I saw my mom up on a ladder taking pictures today, so hopefully I'll have some pics to upload in the next post!

Bees

The day after I posted that, I followed the remaining bees and found their main nest.  It's in the roof support of the third floor of the clubhouse!  There are two holes, one of which houses a female bee (which Mama discovered was a carpenter bee, since they drill through wood).  Daddy-o went up there and sprayed Wasp & Hornet killer in the holes, but to no avail.  They continue to buzz around.

Buzzzzzzzzzz

Today, when I went outside to feed the buns, I heard a loud buzzing.  So, I looked up and saw two huge bumblebees.
Apparently, they were trying to build a nest in the bunny pen.  They had chewed a pretty big hole in the wooden roof support.  Also, one of the bees constantly had it's head stuck in the hole, chewing.  It was pretty cool, except for the fact that they were building a nest in the bunny pen.
I tried to take a video of the bee chewing the hole, but it didn't turn out so great.  But, I'll upload it anyway:

Unfortunately, the bees could not live there.  So, my dad killed one and filled the hole.  Oh, well.  It was fascinating while it lasted.

Will Music Affect the Pulse of Rabbits?

This school year, my science fair project was bunny-related.  And I got to state!

My project was: Will Music Affect the Pulse of Rabbits?  I basically tested a control and three songs and compared all five rabbits' heart rates. 

I won my category at the Glasgow Fair, which is Animal Science.  That meant I went to Regionals.  I also won my category at Regionals.  But, when I went to State on Monday, I didn't win anything.  :(  Oh well.

Also, this week (Spring Break), we are @ Fontainebleau State Park.  Which means that the buns are not with us.  However, we have our trustworthy babysitter Leighanne to look after them!  Thanks!

Flopsy Hates My Croc

Today was Clean Up Day.  I was, well, cleaning up, when I noticed Flopsy behind me.  Apparently my foot was in her way, and she was getting really mad.  So, she was biting, scratching, clawing, and pushing as much as she could to get my Croc out of the way (even though there was a clear path that she could've taken around it).  It was pretty funny to watch.  She does the same thing sometimes to the mini broom I use to clean up.  She inflicts much more damage to the broom, though.  Bristles everywhere!