Eastern Cottontail

Description:

The eastern cottontail is chunky red-brown or gray-brown in appearance with large hind feet, long ears and a short fluffy white tail. Its underside fur is white. There is a rusty patch on the tail. The body is lighter color with a white underside on the tail. It has large brown eyes and large ears. In winter the cottontail's pelage is more gray than brown. The average adult weighs about 2 to 4 lbs

Habitat:

The eastern cottontail's habitat includes open grassy areas, clearings, and old fields supporting abundant green grasses and herbs, with shrubs in the area or edges for cover. The essential components of eastern cottontail habitat are an abundance of well-distributed escape cover (dense shrubs) interspersed with more open foraging areas such as grasslands and pastures.Typically eastern cottontails occupy habitats in and around farms including fields, pastures, open woods, thickets associated with fencerows, wooded thickets, forest edges, and suburban areas with adequate food and cover. They are also found in swamps and marshes and usually avoid dense woods.

Notes:

Since there are so many types of rabbits (13 types of cottontails alone!), I am not positive if this an eastern cottontail or not although I am pretty sure.