A strange looking visitor shares a meal with the squirrels.

                              
I looked out my window.
And what did I see.
A cotton tail squirrel
Eating bird seed.

Strange looking ears.
A small puffy white tail.
He hopped all around.
With his nose to the ground.

Oh now I see.
It’s really a rabbit.
Feasting with the squirrels.
Hope he makes it a habit.

My backyard with a cotton tail rabbit eating with the squirrels. Photo by PR Mace

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  • Bo Russo on Jun 12, 2010

    Yay! First commenter. Cute poem. I was in a weird mood last night when I wrote mine!

  • Bo Russo on Jun 12, 2010

    Maybe he was the Easter Bunny in training. Squirrels are excellent rabbit trainers, I’m serious, it’s on Wikipedia.

  • Ruby Hawk on Jun 12, 2010

    I have never seen it before but t here is a first time for everything. How neat is that,? squirrels and rabbits making friends.

  • Karen Gross on Jun 12, 2010

    Well – at least squirrels and rabbits are on pretty much the same level of the food chain…not like a fox and a squirrel. I think I remember a squirrel who had a friend who was a moose…

  • Mark Gordon Brown on Jun 12, 2010

    Times like that make me wish for a telephoto camera.

  • PR Mace on Jun 12, 2010

    Mark I agree I wish I could have gotten a better picture but every time I got too close he hopped away. Anyway I had fun with the poem and I still see him all the time.

  • Bo Russo on Jun 12, 2010

    Pam, you should put out some greens and carrots and he’ll keep coming around.

  • Goodselfme on Jun 12, 2010

    Animals get better along with each other than most people do.Thank you for the great pic.

  • CHAN LEE PENG on Jun 12, 2010

    That was a rare case to see a squirrel and a rabbit gathered at the same spot. But this was a good sign though. Great poem as usual, liked it.

  • Jenny Heart on Jun 12, 2010

    Nicely done!

  • Anuradha Ramkumar on Jun 13, 2010

    Squirrels and rabbits as friends, that sounds interesting. As Bo Jack said why not put some carrots for the rabbit to feast it daily.

  • stranger007 on Jun 13, 2010

    Great writing and share my friend

  • Moses Ingram on Jun 13, 2010

    A rabbit dining with squirrels that’s something I haven’t seen before. Maybe he will be back.

  • giftarist on Jun 13, 2010

    Cute piece. Great share, friend.

  • papaleng on Jun 14, 2010

    such sweet couple..

  • J M Lennox on Jun 28, 2010

    Nice poem. Thanks for sharing!

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