when will the rabbits stop screaming, clarice?

[phosfate]

o/~ Animals, animals, animals, animals, animals, everywhere o/~

A dove decided that 4:30 a.m. was a good time to sit on my windowsill and make noises like a small bagpipe half-filled with Jell-O. Just for the record, it isn't.

Mom, meanwhile, accidentally unearthed a nest of baby rabbits. She didn't actually touch them (she was poking plants with a stick, for some good and logical reason), so we're hoping it doesn't keep their mother from coming back. Apparently, distressed baby rabbits scream just like distressed grown rabbits. I am very glad I was not present to hear.

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[coreopsis.livejournal.com]

a small bagpipe half-filled with Jell-O.
hee. That's one of the best descriptions ever.

[saskia139.livejournal.com]

That must've been a mourning dove. Peterson's bird guide describes their call thus: "coAH, coo, coo, coo". I love them--they're beautiful and daffy.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

It was. But I've never heard one do that before. Usually it does the Mourning Thing, which I think is what Mr Peterson is trying to describe there, or (when flying) the squeaky I-need-to-oil-my-wings-real-soon thing. This was more of a settling-down blorgleblorgle, ruffle, blorgle, gnur?blorgle thing. At first I thought it was the owl, but it was definitely the dove's voice.

[saskia139.livejournal.com]

Hm. I've never heard the bagpipe-with-jello noise, then. Sounds interesting. Our bedroom is in the basement, and what we get is twittery sparrows complaining that I haven't tossed out any food for them yet, and pigeon wings as they fly away and come back.

[masanbol.livejournal.com]

Maybe it has pneumonia.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! If the mom doesn't take care of them, will you guys take it on yourselves to do the Bunny-mom thing, or are they basically dead???

Pore bunnies!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Their eyes weren't even opened yet, so I don't think we could do much for them except call whoever's in charge of rescuing wild rabbits. It'd be like trying to fix a watch with a ballpeen hammer.

[angelwolf24.livejournal.com]

I feel for you. *hugs* Birds like doing that to me too. My window seems to be their hotspot. >_<

Poor little bunnies :(

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I've never had one on the window before. The doves prefer the phone lines, or the neighbors' television aerial. I just get a neighborhood cat, looking for a hot date:

"Maaaaaaaaaaow!"
"Go home you little whore!"

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

I feel bad for the bunnies. But a dove doing a jello bagpipe serenade is way preferable to rooster testosterone wars. Lemmetellyou. Especially since they start at 3 am.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

a small bagpipe half-filled with Jell-O

MP3 plz!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Don't make me smack you.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

distressed baby rabbits scream just like distressed grown rabbits.

*shudder* I, to, am glad that *neither* of us was there to hear.

Fingers crossed for the baby bunnies. (We had a nest right next to our back porch one year when I was growing up. We did not touch the bunnies, but we did take a good long look, with Dad's supervision. Afterwards, mom bunny returned and bunnies grew up to happily eat stuff in my dad's garden. So hopefully a mere look-see won't hurt your baby bunnies, either.)