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Re: Eastern Cottontail in Wilkes Barre Pa.[Fuji Finepix S700]
Some great shots and informative too. Thanks for posting this.  |
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| said by Kringle  :Some great shots and informative too. Thanks for posting this. No problem ah! , Any Eastern Cottontail rabbits sightings up there in Quebec Canada?
The Fuji FinePix S700 is a great camera for doing outside photography where the lighting is good to excellent.
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| Using your descriptions it seems that we do actually have a few around here. I seldom see them and, even then, it's only from quite far away when I'm taking the dogs for their final daily walk around midnight. The rabbits seem to have made their home in the rather large green space that makes up the schoolyard near my house.
Nonetheless, until I invest in a 400+mm lens and a powerful flash, those conditions mean that I likely won't be getting any usable pictures.  |
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2 edits | said by Kringle :Using your descriptions it seems that we do actually have a few around here. I seldom see them and, even then, it's only from quite far away when I'm taking the dogs for their final daily walk around midnight. The rabbits seem to have made their home in the rather large green space that makes up the schoolyard near my house. Nonetheless, until I invest in a 400+mm lens and a powerful flash, those conditions mean that I likely won't be getting any usable pictures. You have to entice Eastern Cottontails with food like you do with Squirrels to get them use to being near humans. Once they relate humans with getting food, then you will be able to get very close to them. Some of the above photos shots, I am maybe five feet in front of them with a zoom lens.
The Eastern Cottontail are very intelligent creatures with good eye sight, and excellent sense of hearing and smell. Once they smell food, like bread or vegetables they will seek out what they are smelling.
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Pierrefonds, QC | I'll have to give it a try. I didn't see any last night, though... |
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said by antiphishing :You have to entice Eastern Cottontails with food like you do with Squirrels to get them use to being near humans. Once they relate humans with getting food, then you will be able to get very close to them. And something that should NOT be done! Sorry, but that is a bad thing to do, especially on a common basis. Wild animals will become dependent on hand outs and can then starve when they don't get them. Also hand outs tend to fill the animals up, and then they don't eat the foods they need to get the specific nutrients for their health. Thousands of water fowl die yearly because of these practices!
One should NEVER get animals used to people, that is very very bad for them. If a picture can not be gotten without baiting, especially and specifically long term baiting, then it is better off not gotten!
We should observe and admire nature, but not interfere and change it. When we are done there should be no clues left that we were there.
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| said by Gemologist :said by antiphishing :You have to entice Eastern Cottontails with food like you do with Squirrels to get them use to being near humans. Once they relate humans with getting food, then you will be able to get very close to them. And something that should NOT be done! Sorry, but that is a bad thing to do, especially on a common basis. Wild animals will become dependent on hand outs and can then starve when they don't get them. Also hand outs tend to fill the animals up, and then they don't eat the foods they need to get the specific nutrients for their health. Thousands of water fowl die yearly because of these practices! One should NEVER get animals used to people, that is very very bad for them. If a picture can not be gotten without baiting, especially and specifically long term baiting, then it is better off not gotten! We should observe and admire nature, but not interfere and change it. When we are done there should be no clues left that we were there. Come on now, you have to admit the Eastern Cottontails are adorable critters.
In my opinion, I don't think we should leave out fast food, or any other food source that would hurt them in their nature habitat.
I see nothing wrong with giving them some carrots or other vegetable that would sublimate their normal diet of grass , flowers and weeds. I don't leave out huge amounts of vegetables so that the rely solely on humans for food which
would not be a good thing. The Eastern Cottontails will seek out vegetables and flowers in gardens anyway because that is what they do on their own. I don't want them to starve, and wouldn't do anything to hurt them.
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| Cute critters or not, one should never get wild animals used to people! If you remotely care about them, you would easily understand why.
You want to attract wild animals, specifically rabbits, go get some seeds for wild clover and plant a little bed in your yard. That way they don't get used to people and they get their nutrients because wild clovers are a natural and loved food source, domestic carrots are not a natural source of food.
The reason they make telephoto lenses is to get the shots of animals without intruding on them. If your camera doesn't have tele capabilities then you need to be sneaky, blinds work well for most any animals!
But baiting is bad, while good for you, it causes lots of different harm to the animals. Especially getting them used to people!! While you are shooting with a camera, the next person maybe shooting with a gun! Or it could be kids that will do nothing but harm to the critters. Loss of nutrients and vitamins causing premature deaths over winter months. Just do a little search on Google and you may become enlightened on how feeding wild animals is detrimental to their existence! There is a reason many many locales actually have laws against feeding wild animals, and a lot of hard work and supporting research was done getting them passed. Even bird feeders do more harm then good in many instances, because people don't keep them filled or stop filling them after birds get used to the source of food and they then starve and die over the winters. .
But, just do it naturally, aka. Wild clover for rabbits, it will attract them easily and not harm them in any way. It grows naturally in our yard and we prolly get around 6-8 different rabbits a week in our yard and we live in downtown, lol, so I know it works, especially for eastern cotton tails. Can't find seeds drop me a line, I will harvest some and mail them to you so you can grow them too.
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4 edits | I used to keep rabbits. Here's the "acceptable" veggie list: »www.rabbit.org/care/veggies.html
The best thing you can do is insure that there are no fertilizers or pesticides used anywhere near the rabbits. They are very sensitive to pesticides- small amounts can be deadly. Rinse off all food that you leave out for them.
Dandelions are just about the best source of nutrition for a rabbit. They love clover. I also planted wild hay for them (I got seeds from the bedding I occasionally used in the hutch).
Please do NOT feed them carrots. It got famous due to Bugs Bunny, but it's really not good for them. Although it's on the "safe" list, my vet told me to avoid carrots, as it can cause diarrhea (as noted in the list). That's not what you want to do with a wild rabbit.
However, Gemologist has the right approach. Please don't feed them human food. What do I have? A wild bird feeder. Rabbits come under the feeder all the time and eat the seed fallout, as well as all the clover and weeds growing around it.
The feeder is about 15 feet from the closest window. My problem is that all the birds scatter when I open the window. I use a cardboard "bird blind" that will hide my lens. I just open the window, insert the cardboard and poke my camera through the cardboard hole. Patience and good lighting is all I need.
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| said by GeekGirl1 :I used to keep rabbits. Here's the "acceptable" veggie list: » www.rabbit.org/care/veggies.htmlThe best thing you can do is insure that there are no fertilizers or pesticides used anywhere near the rabbits. They are very sensitive to pesticides- small amounts can be deadly. Rinse off all food that you leave out for them. Dandelions are just about the best source of nutrition for a rabbit. They love clover. I also planted wild hay for them (I got seeds from the bedding I occasionally used in the hutch). Your last comments are duteous noted and I understand your point of view. 
I took some time to do a lot of online research on the Eastern Cottontail and their life span is three to five years in the wild. This can't be right? I think they may have a hard time getting across roads and are being preyed upon by other critters in the wild.
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