I showed you some pika photos last night and I have some more tonight but I promise I won’t have anymore for a good while.
The above photo obviously isn’t a pika, it is a Wilson’s warbler. We see these warblers fairly frequently in the woods around our house in East Texas but I believe this is the first one I’ve seen in Yellowstone. I know it is the first one I’ve photographed. It was sitting on cow parsnip plants near the pikas. The cow parsnips were covered with insects, especially flies, and the warbler was having a feast.
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Lovely!
Thanks Deby. I forgot to mention that the pika video you posted the other day is very uncommon. I don’t know what that repeating call he did in the first part of the video means but I have only seen them do it twice. Because of what I saw in Rocky Mountain National Park once it makes me think it is a territorial call.
You can show pika pictures anytime. They are adorable! Thanks made my morning.
Thank you Itgangi! That is the way I feel about pikas too. My sister didn’t like them when I first showed her a photo of one. Then I told they were rabbits, not rats like she thought, and she wants all the pictures I will send her.
Great closeups of the pika, showing what they do! Who could get tired of Pika photos? And, that warbler – wow!