Kit Rabbit

Short for Kitten ? Correct?
I had a great couple of hours with a family of rabbits in my 'back yard' this afternoon . Mum and dad were never far away and played happily in the late afternoon sun.I did notice the buck jump over the mum on a couple of occassions spraying as it did so .Not seen this behaviour before and maybe somebody could explain.
The alert response from the kit was from the wife calling the dog in ,it got the usual Davies machine gun approach.
D3
Sigma 500mm F4.5 at 5.6,1/800th
ISO 400
A3 crop from FF ,approx 10% off .
CR, PP CS3
All C/C's welcome as always .
Thanking you in advance.
Mark

Lovely shot, great detail and simple but effective composition. The side lighting makes it.

Greg

I really like this, simple but everything about it works very nicely. Agree about the lighting

When you said it was good you were'nt wrong! I'm selling my gear!! very nice and cute mark,nice to see you had the camera on machine gun mode!haha! very well done

Good bunny stuff !
Cheers
JohnR

HI, lovely shot.

You put question marks after Kitten and Correct, Just to confirm incase you were looking for an answer a baby rabbit is referred to as a Kitten so yes you were correct..mum would be the doe!!

Regards

Brian

Lovely; excellent choice of aperture for good control of DOF, the upper dark BG serves to show the transparency of the ears well too, I like it!

The pose, light and setting have all come together here, resulting in a fine shot.

Very nice, the lighting shows off the whiskers well.

Thanks all ,the kitten name I wasn't too sure on as there are a number of alternatives for a young rabbit, anything from Rack to Bunnie.Thanks John and Brian.It's the spraying antics of the Buck over the Doe I'd not seen before .Tried to capture it and perhaps today may be more fortuatous, it appears to spring over the Doe weeing as it does so .It did it on two seperate occassions so I summised it wasn't out of over excitement ,look we all suffer from it eventually ,don't you? Oh it must be just me then.LOL Just wondering if anybody else had 'come across it ' before ( sorry for the pun. ) It may even had been the Doe but being the most active i assumed it was the Buck. And yes my ''lawn '' needs a cut,only its 15 acres and it takes a month with the Flymo.Mark

nice image, like the pose and light

Lovely shot, beautiful lighting and composition. Yes rabbits do jump and spray like that. I'm tempted to say it was the doe that was doing it, as we had a pet rabbit - a doe, that did it frequently. It seemed to be doing it out of excitment, or high spirits. I would guess at also something to do with mating or being in season kinda thing. I've seen the wild rabbits round here doing it too.

Lovely shot!

Thanks Dawn ,we too have pet rabbits a M and F but not seen them doing it in the run .It was a spectacle and wish I'd have had a faster shutter finger to capture it .It really was a spray too .One of natures odd things I suppose, the other rabbit didn't flinch and carried on regardless.Typical,my wife just raises an eyebrow when i do it and i get the rollicking afterwards when back indoors so nothing new then!LOL .Thanks for that .Mark

Well captured pose and beautifully lit, a simple yet pleasing image.

Regards
Terry

Beautiful lighting and a pleasure to view Mark. Love it!

Fran

Hi Mark.
This whole picture is superb,like it a lot.

Keith.

Nice... 15acre Lawn phew.... like the alertness....

Nice one. good choice of comp for the Rabbits pose.

Lee