Pikas I’ve Known and Loved

Pika Calling
Pika Calling

I think Deby will be posting a story about pikas soon but I wanted to go ahead and post one anyway on the theory that you can never see enough pikas. I don’t really have much of a story about them other than I really love pikas so any time we find them we spend lots of time shooting them.

I have a lot of pika photos and since I love the little guys I wanted you to see some of them.

Pika Watching a Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel
Pika Watching a Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel

We always joke that I should title a movie I do about trout as “Trout I’ve Known and Loved”, a movie about elk as “Elk I have Known and Loved. Well I finally gave in and titled this one “Pika I’ve Known and Loved” mostly because I always love what I am shooting, especially pikas.

Pika Looking for His Neighbor
Pika Looking for His Neighbor

We’ve seen them several places in Rocky Mountain National Park and in Yellowstone. These guys live in Yellowstone.

Pika Watching Me
Pika Watching Me

As you probably already know pikas are rabbits superbly adapted to cold environments. They don’t hibernate and they spend their summers collecting plants and putting them in haystacks and their winters under the snow living off their haystacks.

Pika Watching His Neighbor - Waiting for the Other Pika to Leave So He Can Steal its Hay
Pika Watching His Neighbor – Waiting for the Other Pika to Leave So He Can Steal its Hay
Pika Ready for a Nap
Pika Ready for a Nap
Look How He Has One Paw on the Other
Look How He Has One Paw on the Other
Pika Stealing Vegetation From His Neighbor
Pika Stealing Vegetation From His Neighbor

If you would like to see more photos of pikas, as well as read many stories of other Yellowstone animals, with lots of photos, go to www.yellowstonedaily.com.
Our photos are available at www.vernelehmberg.com where you will find over 4,000 photos from Africa to Yellowstone.

Pika Cleaning His Face and Paws
Pika Cleaning His Face and Paws

4 thoughts on “Pikas I’ve Known and Loved

  1. More great images and I was going to do a post but was too tired to think straight so never got it done. Thank you for stepping up and helping out while I got the car stuff straight.

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