freedombecki
Let's go swimmin'!
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The ones who live on our ranch vary between 8" to 9 1/2". They're very wonderful birds. You'd be walking out in the scrublands, and suddenly that distinctive little sweet gurgle comes out of nowhere, blesses the air for a while, then drops back into a respectful silence--unless there are several engaging in the chant. I think the Western Meadowlark may be larger than the Eastern one. Their warbles are distinctively different, but so pretty (to me).Rabbits will attack predators. It's hard to say whether the rabbit diverted the snake away from her underground nest or was trying to get her babies back.
I reran the video three times, and the bird has the head shape and a suspicious v-neck marking that wants me to say it could be a Western Meadowlark, but I'm not 100% certain. Most of the meadowlarks in Wyoming, where we lived for 35 years, were very, very shy. However, it could be that curiosity got the better of the bird's no-contact senses or it could've thought while the rabbit's away... baby rabbits can be quite tiny at first.
Maybe, but I've never seen rabbits be concerned about the meadowlarks that are both herbivorous and carnivorous but seem interested, at least to me, in smaller insects. And I don't know. You may be right that the bird in the video is a meadowlark, but if it is, it is an unusualy large one. Or maybe I'm just not remembering them all that well as we have been gone from Kansas a long time now.