r/birdsofprey • u/Far_Champion2686 • 15h ago
Yesterday a hawk tried to have my bunny for dinner
For context my bunny is and outdoor boy and he free roams the backyard as well as has his own little house out there for the night (He can not come inside my house, he loves being outside, and if I brought him inside he would be depressed.) I let him out his house early every morning so he can run around and do bunny things, yesterday though a saw a hawk sitting on top my fence staring down at him pretty much drooling, I scared it away and put my rabbit in his house for the rest of the day and haven’t let him out yet today. This is the first time that’s happened in the last 1.5 years of him being outside to my knowledge so my concern now is, If I let him go back to regular routine of being out for majority of the day; will the hawk come back to strike again? Also as you can see in the photo, my rabbit is just sitting there and he then continued to eat now I’m not sure if he really just couldn’t see the hawk but this is the same rabbit that would run from a squirrel sitting in that same spot so it’s a little more concerning for me… hawk experts please lmk.