False Knees by Joshua Barkman for January 14, 2019

That’s terrible.

Hmmm, maybe Brrr! should go back inside the warren . . .

Law of the jungle or you snooze you lose.

Hare today, gone tomorrow.

Uh, first thing you’re gonna do is go flying?

WAS gonna mate.

Meet up with the Black Rabbit of Inlé.

Owls, and other raptors, are cool. Rabbits eat the veggies you plant in spring/late winter.

It’s an owl-eat-rabbit world we live in.

Beautifully drawn, but now I’m sad.

It pays to keep your ears down.

Do people think of events like this, which happen millions of times a day, when they say, “Oooooh! I love nature!”

Now I will always have the doubt of what it wanted to do.

um, keep your ears down?

BBC America has been playing the Blue Planet series up to today. You see a lot of cute animals being taken out. Those predators are really smart.

Yep. If you’re attracting prey species to your yard by feeding them (as I do), you’re also attracting predators.

So don’t be upset if this happens. I’m not.

another morbid strip………….

No, not so terrible. This actually happened to me in 5th grade. Got up too early for cartoons and instead watched a young rabbit on my lawn from my window to pass the time. A Redtailed hawk blasted past my eyes just like this and I screamed. After the initial shock I was amazed that neither the rabbit nor I saw the hawk coming and it lead me on a life of watching, observing, then studying birds, a love for raptors, working to reintroduce Peregrine Falcons, and appreciating wildlife most of my life. I always think of Richard Adams quote in Watership Down about rabbits: “All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”

Don’t worry little buddy you wont be seeing spring.