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Good of you to give a home to an older bun.
If he was only just desexed, I would hold off on bonding for the time being. Male rabbits are still fertile for up to 4 weeks post-neuter. Your girl is older, so maybe less fertile herself, but there is still a chance of pregnancy. Did he mount her at all when they met?
That aside, the interaction so far sounds good. It can be very different once a divider is gone though. Females especially are more territorial about their space.
I have seen rabbits go into each others spaces and not be fussed before. They bonded fairly swiftly afterward. My trio worked that way. It was an already bonded female pair, introduced to a single male. He went to explore their space while they went into his pen to check things out.
I also had my friends rabbits bond that way. Pens side by side with all their things. I opened the divider and let the female go in and visit the males space. They were both very sweet natured and bonded quickly. This was pretty neutral territory for them though as they had only been staying with me for a few days before that. If you have a puppy exercise pen, you could set that up somewhere else in the yard and see how there interaction in that is. That would be more neutral ground to start off with.
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