When I went to put our dog to bed last night, maybe around 8:45 PM, I stopped short at the sight of the mother rabbit near the bunny nest in our backyard. Poor Coco. She was very confused about why she had to wait in the house. And in the end we had to take her out on the leash to the side yard because the baby bunnies were moving around in the yard within about six feet of the nest out back.

What you see in the video below is the mother rabbit about two feet away from the nest. Our garage light is set to turn on with any motion in the backyard, so that’s why the light is on at first, and that weird orangey color in the upper left is the reflection of my hand in the glass of our storm door.

In the very beginning of the video you can see one of the babies hopping up to the mother from the right. I missed the babies leaving the nest because I had to run and get my phone. But when I first opened the back door, not only did I see the mom, but I saw one of the babies hopping toward her. This setup surprised me. I thought when the mother came back to the nest at night, she would push aside the mat of dead grasses and lie down with her babies to nurse them, the way a dog or cat would. But no, she is standing there and the bunnies came to her. I imagine this is easier for her if she needs to run off quickly to draw a predator (like the family dog😂) away from her babies. The video ends pretty much when our garage light turns itself back off, because you can no longer see anything. And I’m sharing just because I’ve never seen anything like this before and thought someone might be interested😀

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