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What the Rabbit Saw

Saturday, 3. October 2009, 20:56:18

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I'm down by the South Coast for a few days :D a varied and surprisingly lonely landscape...





...where a watchful rabbit might observe a variety of other wildlife. Including, of course, other rabbits:



And a few ducks, including gadwalls.



Also around are the powerful-looking shovelers.



But mainly, it's all about gulls! :sing: :right:





The ones above are the ubitiquous, noisy, tough-guy herring gulls, the most common species down here. But I have also seen a fair number of lesser black-backed gulls:



And a handful of pretty black-headed gulls :smile:



Hopefully more to come over the next couple of days :smile:

Bullet in WaitingA Hattrick of Raptors

Comments

Andy Wilson 3. October 2009, 21:09

Great post :up:

Words 3. October 2009, 21:19

I hope the weather improves for you, otherwise it could get fairly windswept (though nothing compared with some of your Canadian adventures). That's a fine looking rabbit :up:

San 4. October 2009, 00:29

Very unique shots!

Stardancer 4. October 2009, 01:11

I have a rabbit. I use him as a doorstop mostly.

Oh, he's ceramic.

Lovely photos. Enjoy your trip.

:smile:

Nicolas Borgsmidt 4. October 2009, 02:08

Rabbit eye perspective. :up: Beautiful :smile:

Shaunak De 4. October 2009, 03:26

THe last photo of the gull. 5 stars!
:star: :star: :star: :star: :star:

Darko 4. October 2009, 06:43

That rabbit is planning to attack you :yikes: :insane:

P:

What kind of castle is it? Maybe a watch tower?

ERWIN 4. October 2009, 07:45

Great post

Hermitess 4. October 2009, 14:31

This will sound like such a lame question and I'm not trying to be sarcastic...

Why is it people who live in different areas of the world form different languages and accents but animals will not?!
Something I've always wondered :confused:

Deb Platt 4. October 2009, 15:33

Originally posted by Hermitess:

Why is it people who live in different areas of the world form different languages and accents but animals will not?!



It could be that most "verbalizations" by animals are genetically determined, while human language is learned and culturally determined.

I'm not sure what to say about birds like parrots who can mimic just about anything they hear. That's obviously learned, but not sure how this fits into their "native" speech, which to me sounds like "squawk".

BTW are the rabbits hiding in heather? Heather is just something I read about; it's not something that grows anywhere near me.

Hermitess 4. October 2009, 17:43

Thanks Deb, that makes sense! Homer: Doh!


Ok, next lame question

Why don't ppl have genetically deteremined verbalizations?

Anonymous 5. October 2009, 08:14

lynn Cordell-Frisby writes:

An interesting article regarding birds and local dialects, might interest HERMITES

http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/skylark-song.html#cr

Adele 5. October 2009, 19:44

@Andy - thanks! :smile: It's a wonderful area to visit.

Adele 5. October 2009, 19:45

@Words - well, quite; I will admit that it was somewhat windy in Rye Harbour on Saturday, but that would pass as standard in the western prairies :whistle: The weather was rather mixed but it was sunny, or at least dry, in Dungeness, when it mattered the most.

Thanks! :smile:

Adele 5. October 2009, 19:46

@San - thanks! :smile: Odd photos of common species were the order of the day on Saturday! :right:

Adele 5. October 2009, 19:47

@Stardancer - LOL, I have a ceramic wolf, but he sits on my desk! :D

Thanks! :smile: It was a fun break.

Adele 5. October 2009, 19:47

@Nic - thanks! :smile: That rabbit made me smile :D

Adele 5. October 2009, 19:48

@Shaunak - thankyou! :smile: That was my favourite of the gull pictures :smile:

Adele 5. October 2009, 19:55

@Darko - possibly! :knight: Rabbits can be quite fierce. We had a very large pet rabbit who considered that keeping cats out of the garden was his foremost duty. He was the terror of the neighbourhoood :yikes:

That's Camber Castle. It was built in the reign of Henry VIII. You can read about its history here.

Thanks :smile:

Adele 5. October 2009, 19:55

@Erwin - thanks! :smile:

Adele 5. October 2009, 20:01

@Lindsay - there is actually some evidence that animals do form different "dialects". It's been detected in bats as well as the skylarks that Lynn mentions :smile:

Deb Platt 5. October 2009, 20:08

Originally posted by gdare:

That rabbit is planning to attack you :yikes: :insane:



I think this is a reference to the killer rabbit in Monty Python's Holy Grail movie.



When I was on a beach in Western Scotland, I was surprised to see rabbits combing the beach. I wondered if they were eating the seaweed that had washed up.

Adele 5. October 2009, 20:15

@Deb - probably not heather, but it's a bit hard to id plants at that range!

Yes, I'm always surprised to see rabbits on the beach, but they're not fussy eaters, and I guess they do find some coastal plants that are to their liking.

Thanks! :smile:

Adele 5. October 2009, 20:15

@Lynn - thanks for the link! :smile:

Hermitess 5. October 2009, 20:16

thanks Lynn! :up:

Darko 6. October 2009, 06:45

That photo shows how rabbits could be more dangerous than big cats :insane: They are evil :eyes:

:lol:

Neil 6. October 2009, 18:15

great photos

Adele 6. October 2009, 19:10

@Darko - Haven't you seen Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Wererabbit? p:

Adele 6. October 2009, 19:10

@Neil - thanks! :smile:

Darko 6. October 2009, 19:15

No. Do you think I should? :insane:

Adele 6. October 2009, 19:46

Er...not sure. The first three short films of Wallace and Gromit are a lot funnier, to my mind.

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