Given how actively anti-environment the actions of Cardiff Council and its various subsidiaries, like the Harbour Authority, are, I’m amazed these European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) have managed to survive within the official boundary of Cardiff Port. But survive they have.

Maybe their survival is helped by the fact that they are easily seen by the hundreds of people who walk or bike past this area every day; if the rabbits disappeared, people would notice and ask why, how, when, who.

I hope they continue to flaunt their survival, as they currently do, by grazing on the one grassy field in the area and on top of the humps of now-vegetated rubbish material adjacent to the footway and cycle path.

With a background of the dark blue cranes using to move cargo and the tall lights that illuminate the port, the rabbits are an incongruous sight but that just makes me like them all the more.