{"id":14043,"date":"2022-07-09T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=14043"},"modified":"2022-07-08T11:15:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T16:15:12","slug":"momma-cottontail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=14043","title":{"rendered":"Momma Cottontail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2nwSeWN\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52201482062_d57203e1a2.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2773\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was going to go work on our sprinkler system this morning but I went outside and saw momma cottontail underneath the bench in our back yard. This means she probably has a kit stashed not too close and not too far away. I decided not to stress her so I&#8217;ll be leaving her alone until she leaves on her own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2nwXnhJ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52202482326_af2c7f3f9b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2772\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She&#8217;s laying down chilling but very alert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2nwZXem\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52202986730_b92c16d22c.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2771\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Other pics of cottontails in our yard. Might be her, might be somebody else, I can&#8217;t tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2nwXvwM\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52202510053_61857e9149.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2770\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They get very still. They can&#8217;t fight at all but they can remain still and can run very fast in a herky jerky manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m linking with Eileen&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Saturday&#8217;s Critters<\/a>. Lots of good posts there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to go work on our sprinkler system this morning but I went outside and saw momma cottontail underneath the bench in our back yard. This means she probably has a kit stashed not too close and not too far away. I decided not to stress her so I&#8217;ll be leaving her alone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[954],"tags":[2926,2960,3239,2924,942],"class_list":["post-14043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saturdays-critters","tag-back-yard","tag-bunnies","tag-cottontails","tag-rabbits","tag-saturdays-critters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14046,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043\/revisions\/14046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}