Sentences with word «cottontail»

Hundreds of visitors convening there over the weekend to discuss literature and nature were bemused by the flocks of cottontails nibbling grass as students and campus workers passed without a second glance.

Types of animals per USDA inspection: hedgehogs, kittens, puppies, guinea pigs, chinchillas, and eastern cottontail rabbits.

«One of them is a very simple scene, a wild cottontail rabbit nursing a litter of young.

The specimens, collected in 1983 from the small country of Suriname on South America's northeast coast, were labeled as South American cottontails.

Juniper thickets not only reduce the number of jackrabbits and cottontails for eagles to capture, but also makes it difficult to capture the ones that are there by allowing the rabbits to hide in the thickets.

The domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is not in the same genus as cottontails and is not native to the Americas.

And it's not just cottontails that could soon be off - limits to breeders, retailers and the pet - owning public.

February is prime season for squirrels in North Texas, while cottontail rabbit and opossum season is around the corner

These adorable little Coconut Cottontails (meant to look like fluffy bunny tails), mimic the flavor of a Coconut Cream Pie Larabar!

Enhance your homemade cupcakes with some adorable polka dot bunny wrappers that are complete with fuzzy cottontails, that you can make by cutting out a bunny face and sticking it on each cupcake wrapper with some of your scrapbooking paper and mini pom poms.

Mary Hilton, who owns Gary - based Cottontails, the second largest diaper service in the Chicago area, says her business has tripled since 1978.

It looks like little Peter cottontail lost his (you guessed it) tail!

Padilla says the center sees a lot of birds, from seagulls to woodpeckers, and mammals, including cottontail rabbits, squirrels and the occasional skunk or coyote.

These are average growth curves for wild, mother - raised baby cottontails.

When you think of rabbits, you probably envision the small cottontail rabbits that you see around your home.

He loves his chew toys, hay and cottontail cottage.

Before 1912 field trials were held primarily on cottontail and occasionally on New England hare.

The Inn's staff learns to distinguish tracks identified with adorable, but severely endangered, New England cottontail bunnies as they trail after wardens from Maine's Department of Inland Fish and Wildlife.

These nibbling little creatures each have a carrot purchased from Michaels, to which I added some wire to keep the lil» cottontails wrapped together.

In the case of the Eastern cottontail, who favors farm fields, meadows and other open spaces, as well as blackberry thickets and open woodland, his diet will comprise grasses of many species, herbaceous undergrowth such as low shrubs, weeds like dandelions and plantain, clovers and even garden greens.

Note: If you have found a wild cottontail rabbit, please read this information for a list of wildlife rehabbers.

The discovery follows another finding that Ruedas published this year showing that the South American cottontail, which was considered to be a single species distributed over a vast area from Mexico to most of South America, really only occupies a small area of Brazil.

The area is currently planted with indigenous plants perfect for the survival of endangered New England cottontail rabbits - which sometimes may be seen at dusk and dawn by very quiet, very patient visitors!

I like it because it strikes me as a technically good photograph in an artistic way, and it shows an essential act in the life of the cottontail.

The lands also will be managed for improved wildlife habitat for seven species of national importance, like the New England cottontail, and four hawk species listed by the New York State Endangered Species Act — Cooper's hawk, red - shouldered hawk, broad - winged hawk and northern goshawk.

A new study shows that free - roaming cats hunt and kill more than 80 native species, including blue jays, cottontail rabbits, southern flying squirrels, and even ducks.

It's the native grasslands where prey like jackrabbits and cottontail rabbits are most abundant, and eagles may venture to hunt even if there are wind turbines present.

Eagles win because it provides a habitat for jackrabbits and cottontails, and it provides it in such a way that the landscape is more effective for foraging.»

Despite this rave review, I decided that when I wear this dress again, as I must in order to amortize the cost, I might feel less naked with closed - toe shoes, tights, a cottontail and / or a burka.

Welcome to the Cottontails ® website!

With the chill of winter approaching, the cottontails must find food and a safe haven to survive.

Vocabulary words included are: basket, bonnet, bunny, candy, carrot, chick, chocolate, color, cottontail, decorate, dinner, dress, duck, dye, Easter, eggs, flowers, fun, hare, hop, hunt, jellybean, lamb, marshmallow, parade, pastel, rabbit, roll, spring, Sunday

basket, bonnet, bunny, candy, carrot, chick, chocolate, color, cottontail, decorate, dinner, dress, duck, dye, Easter, eggs, flowers, fun, hare, hop, hunt, jellybean, lamb, marshmallow, parade, pastel, rabbit, roll, spring, Sunday

Dens of rattlesnakes, scorpions, jackrabbit, cottontail, ants, horny butterfly, horned toad, and stinging winds and seasons.

Hop, written and illustrated by Jorey Hurley, dramatizes a day in the life of a cottontail rabbit and her three small bunnies as they go about doing what bunnies do — nibbling grass and bright flower tops, playing tag, sleeping and staying on guard, all day, every day.

They are not going to exactly match the growth curve of your cottontail because the cottontails that live in your area may be larger or smaller, their litter size influences their growth rate, and the formula and amount you feed are not going to match that provided by their mother.

Soon after the cottontail's eyes have opened and they venture about with curiosity, I keep hay and plants in their cages.

Cow's milk is not poisonous to rabbits, per se — your little cottontail is not going to keel over if you give them a sip of your 2 % milk — but it is caloric, loaded with fat, and hard for them to digest.

Although they exist in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors, and may be found in habitats from desert to arctic tundra, perhaps the most familiar wild rabbit to Americans is the cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus spp.), so - called for its round, fluffy, white tail.

Among the cottontails, the Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) is most common.

Whether it is a baby barn owl that has fallen out of its nest or a cottontail rabbit that has been hit by a car, Project Wildlife arrivals go through pretty much the same process.

Beagles are often used to flush game to guns, including game birds, wild board, foxes, bobcat, red deer, cottontail rabbits, snowshoe hare, coyote and roe deer.

Among the cat victims were mourning doves, blue jays, cottontail rabbits, southern flying squirrels and rarer animals, such as purple gallinules, a kind of water bird.

The cottontails were sparse but nearly every stake had a rabbit to run.