If you have disturbed a nest of baby bunnies, place all material back in the nest and snuggle the bunnies down inside it. The nest will be lined with the mother's fur. Cut several pieces of string (about a foot long) or use very small sticks and cross them on top of the nest to make a star. Check the nest the next morning to see if the string or sticks have been disturbed by the mother's coming and going. Remember, you may never see her.

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The Eastern Cottontail Rabbit has a compact body with long hind legs, long ears, large brown eyes, and a small tail with a puffy white underside, which resembles a cotton ball. The fur is reddish-brown or grayish-brown in color with the fur around their nose, belly and underside of the tail being white. Almost all have a gray patch around the neck and the kits have an additional white mark on their forehead that fades as they mature. Cottontail Rabbits are herbivores and will eat many types of vegetation. They enjoy grasses, clover, weeds, dandelion, bulbs, many herbs, flowers, leaves and twigs.

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