
“In Pennsylvania, many ticks are carrying a disease.” With that important message out of the way, BirdingPI.com is foregoing its yearly “macro tick photography” PSA in favour of a cute, furry bunny recently seen along the Gull Point Trail:

What a cute, furry bunny!

A cute, furry bunny covered in engorged ticks!


Yuck. (Warned you not to open this post.)
Wishing everyone a pleasant, parasite-free weekend. #more_bird
The bunny must be able to survive multiple tick bites. Is there a lesson from this? Perhaps harvesting its blood and injecting hikers with it will prevent tick bite problems! We must run this past RFKII
If only we knew who or what an “RFKII” is!