This is why the bunnies in my area come out at dusk and spend the night under my bird feeder gathering seeds.
When we were growing up we had an old tomcat who was well a lard butt, he probably weighed 20+ lbs. We noticed one day he had two deep wounds behind his neck and we put medicine on it and got to watching him. When he would go out he would immediately look up when he left the house or garage and he stayed near the cars in the driveway if he saw anything flying he would dart under a car. We had hawks around our place and figured one thought he would be a tasty snack and tried to lift his big butt off the ground only to find he weighed too much for take off. We found these same marks on him again a few years later and noted the same behavior as soon as he went outside.