Fred came across this little trinket in one of his drift samples the other day. It’s a muskrat jawbone, and (as you can see) it’s black. The discoloration’s a result of being stuck in the mud for a while. It’s certainly a capable-looking implement:

In other local rodent news, there are some fresh young bunnies out back. Guess they were born a couple weeks ago. They seem to spend most of their time huddled under a think layer of fur (kindly provided for by Mother Rabbit).

So, here’s a photograph of the mom as she keeps a watchful eye over her young:

…and here’s the father, who happens to be located in a different (but nearby) hutch:

Buster (that’s his name) is actually a pretty old rabbit; if you take a close look at his face, you can see that it looks wrinkled.

Now, I’ve noticed that two of my last three three of my last four (!) posts have been about small, cute, furry things; this is a trend that I’m not necessarily happy with. Hopefully the post in between about shotguns helped to balance things out, but in the meantime I’ll try to get back on track.