There is a rabbit warren under the hedge where Corn Field, Sheep Field and Sleepers meet. Its many entrances and exits are hidden under the brambles but you may well have walked atop the warren itself.
Warren
Rabbits
The nature reserve’s rabbits are beginning their long and busy breeding season.
Continue reading “Rabbits”
Easter Bunny
For decades there has been a rabbit warren in the hedge between Sleepers Field and Cornfield, in the stretch from the picnic place to Puddle Corner. Here’s a video that shows how astonishingly complex such a warren can be.
Header image: rabbit (CC0) from pixabay.com
Rabbits
There is a well established rabbit warren in the hedge between Cornfield and Sleepers Field. But, despite their long-term place in our landscapes and myths, rabbits are not British natives; they are an introduced alien species.
Continue reading
Wildlife watching requires patience
by Simon Knight
One of the special features about the park – or any wild place – is that if you go there at the correct time and have the patience to stay still, be quiet and just really look and listen, you will find that there is life all around you.
Continue readingRabbits
The nature reserve’s rabbits are beginning their long and busy breeding season.
Continue reading “Rabbits”
Rabbits
There is a well established rabbit warren in the hedge between Cornfield and Sleepers Field. But, despite their long-term place in our landscapes and myths, rabbits are not British natives; they are an introduced alien species.
Continue readingRabbit warren
There are two rabbit warrens in the park: one at the far end of Sleepers and one in the thick bramble hedge that runs alongside the central path from Fiveways to Puddle Corner.
Here is a fascinating video, narrated by Chris Packham, about a rabbit warren.
The park’s grass eaters
Grass is very hard to digest and most of the animals that eat it have evolved complicated digestive systems to deal with it.
Continue readingRabbits
There are rabbits in the park.
Continue reading “Rabbits”
Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve 