Death Pays a Visit

While running around in the woods the girls found this...

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The remains of a cottontail rabbit.  Life is very tenuous when you occupy the lower rungs of the food chain which is why this animal is so prolific.  Some females can produce as many as thirty-five offspring in a year.  Nevertheless, most bunnies don't make it a year before someone eats them.

There is some speculation in my mind as to who dined upon this rabbit.  The legs and many of the bones and fur remained behind.  Raptor or mammalian predator?