Sitting quietly at the feet or sometimes seen poking from beneath the hem of a dress, there are 15 hand-painted depictions, used by the artist as a clever time marker, with all the bollards pre-1859 being rabbit-free, while all those after have a rabbit depicted. These fuzzy footnotes symbolise the introduction of the first 24 rabbits into Australia at nearby Winchelsea in 1859 by Thomas Austin. Those 24 bred in plague proportions, wreaking havoc at various times in the intervening 154 years and reaching an estimated population of 300 million recently.