Little water buckets next to trees for no apparent reason. There are five little buckets spaced around the park.
We can always come up with some kind of explanation for something we haven’t seen before. Our self-imposed rule is that our explanation doesn’t have to be right, it just has to make sense in some way. This time though; nothing. Couldn’t figure it out. We gave up and asked Bob.
Turns out, it’s all about the rabbits. And the dripper system. Jackrabbits and cottontails. They’re everywhere. It’s true, we, and Henry, watched those rabbits every day. The park was having trouble with rabbits chewing holes in the drippers that water the trees. Rabbits have to have water, even desert rabbits. Maybe especially desert rabbits.
The park solution was to set out water buckets for the rabbits, and keep the water buckets fresh and full. It’s working. They haven’t had any water lines chewed since.
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