Where would rabbits be in 20-30 degree weather with snow ?
Rabbits tend to hang tight in daylight hours when they are most vulnerable to those critters which prey on them most, fox, coyote, the larger hawks and owls. For those same reasons, you will find the fox, coyote, and owls hunting when the rabbits are most active which is at night. To find them during the daylight hours, look for them where they hole up out of sight and out of the weather. They will be in the thickest clumps of vegetation like cattail clumps, brush piles, heavy grass and weed beds, under the harvested stalks of picked corn, and even tunneled into the deep snow drifts. They will also take cover in old dens from skunks, woodchucks, and even fox when no one is home. The best way to find them is to walk them up. Without a good dog to help you root them out, you will have to kick them out with your own two feet. It is fun and exciting. Get ready! I have had them hold so still I literally walked right up and touched them with my boot toe before they took off. That kind of hun
