Bunny Boom in Seattle? (Woodinville: homes, camper, living in)

[homesinseattle]

Notice a bunny boom? Here are some reasons for the Seattle area’s recent rise in rabbits. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sea...bbits/%3famp=1

[Diana Holbrook]

There is a close cyclical relationship between coyote population and bunny population. When the bunny numbers boom, the coyotes will follow and boom, until the bunnies are gone, and the coyote population will also drop... Then the bunnies will boom again...

[Seacove]

Living in Woodinville where yards are large, we have rabbits all over. A couple of years ago we had a huge Barred Owl. Not long after, the rabbits started disappearing so it's not just coyotes.

[Diana Holbrook]

Ah yes... we have those too.

[homesinseattle]

Originally Posted by Diana Holbrook

There is a close cyclical relationship between coyote population and bunny population. When the bunny numbers boom, the coyotes will follow and boom, until the bunnies are gone, and the coyote population will also drop... Then the bunnies will boom again...

A plethora of pun possibilities exist here. Will they still breed like rabbits if their potential mates are coyote ugly?

[rjshae]

Originally Posted by homesinseattle

Notice a bunny boom? Here are some reasons for the Seattle area’s recent rise in rabbits. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sea...bbits/%3famp=1

There's been a bunny boom on the Eastside for years, at least in the area I dwell. Scruffy brown rabbits everywhere, and yes they very likely are helping to feed the local population of coyotes and birds of prey. The rabbits used to be nearly fearless; now they scamper whenever you get close.

I wonder though, is the species indigenous or did they escape from breeders?

[Hemlock140]

Originally Posted by Diana Holbrook

There is a close cyclical relationship between coyote population and bunny population. When the bunny numbers boom, the coyotes will follow and boom, until the bunnies are gone, and the coyote population will also drop... Then the bunnies will boom again...

That’s what’s happening here now. Bunnies all around and nearly every morning I see at least one coyote. Last week had to bury the remains of one rabbit that had been mostly eaten, though that may have been the work of a barred owl that hangs out nearby.

[Blondebaerde]

For the past two years there has been a Bunny boom at my place .

I don't think it's the kind of bunny you're referring to however . See "Seeking Arrangements" . Better yet , for you married people , definitely don't .

I refer to the collective group of pick ups as my Warren . It's good to be single with a sense of humor .

[flyingsaucermom]

Originally Posted by Blondebaerde

For the past two years there has been a Bunny boom at my place .

I don't think it's the kind of bunny you're referring to however . See "Seeking Arrangements" . Better yet , for you married people , definitely don't .

I refer to the collective group of pick ups as my Warren . It's good to be single with a sense of humor .

That's nice Blonde...

But I don't know why a married man with an even better sense of humor couldn't say the same.

[rjshae]

It looks like the variant I've been seeing is the eastern cottontail. It's not indigenous to the area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_cottontail