You have to sneak up on them. Just when you think there are no more berries, and you won't have nearly enough for a pie, you lift one last group of leaves and surprise four or five nestled together thinking they escaped. Of course the greatest rewards are the berries you pop in your mouth as you work. If you're experienced enough, you can hold a berry between your fingers by the green stem and bite it from the pointy end, getting all the good part without biting your fingers. Then you hide the leafy evidence amidst the plants.
Rabbits make no effort at all to cover up their gluttony.
They always select the ripe ones, and it frustrates me that they don't just eat the whole berry and leave the others alone. Each time it brought a smile. The two scruffy strawberry plants we had last year were trying to make a comeback, and I thought adding a few more plants would encourage them. I noticed your sign for barefoot strawberries. You must mean bare root strawberries.