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Pygmy Sighting in rural east wa?
« on: October 07, 2022, 06:47:51 PM »
I was walking to a corn mill to shoot some piegons when I saw something hiding in the distance,as I walked towards it I saw it looked like a Pygmy rabbit,it just froze and ran off into  a hop field
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Re: Pygmy Sighting in rural east wa?
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2022, 08:15:51 PM »
They are around for sure. I see them a few different places.
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Re: Pygmy Sighting in rural east wa?
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2022, 08:43:36 PM »
The Kent Boeing Plant had them in the islands of the parking lots.
Here in OKC they are everywhere. Cut little things with tiny ears.
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Re: Pygmy Sighting in rural east wa?
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2022, 09:13:44 PM »
I used to see them in Kennewick at the Vista Field Airport.
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Re: Pygmy Sighting in rural east wa?
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2022, 10:36:32 PM »
Hard to come by in numbers these days in  E WA, but no doubt they're still a few around.

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Re: Pygmy Sighting in rural east wa?
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2022, 03:47:16 PM »
Lots of reintroduction , recovery, etc stuff going on with the Pygmy rabbits. They’re a threatened species i believe.
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Re: Pygmy Sighting in rural east wa?
« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2022, 04:21:04 PM »
Shhhh! Bios will have that area locked down to access and prolly start breeding orcas there.

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Re: Pygmy Sighting in rural east wa?
« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2022, 04:22:57 PM »
By the way, I mentioned some sage boomers once, and that bit me two years later.

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Re: Pygmy Sighting in rural east wa?
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2022, 10:14:43 AM »
I know huh,This state getting a little too much with the bios :yeah: :yeah:
Shhhh! Bios will have that area locked down to access and prolly start breeding orcas there.
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Re: Pygmy Sighting in rural east wa?
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2022, 10:22:35 AM »
Lots of reintroduction , recovery, etc stuff going on with the Pygmy rabbits. They’re a threatened species i believe.

If I remember right, the area that they deemed critical pygmy rabbit habitat was near Moses lake. Numbers were increasing,... then...a fire went through the area and decimated the population. Haven't heard much since.

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Re: Pygmy Sighting in rural east wa?
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2022, 10:22:44 AM »
Shhhh! Bios will have that area locked down to access and prolly start breeding orcas there.

The bio's know where they are. If they were going to lock up some land due to a few pygmy rabbits, it'd be done by now.
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Re: Pygmy Sighting in rural east wa?
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2022, 10:35:14 AM »
Lots of reintroduction , recovery, etc stuff going on with the Pygmy rabbits. They’re a threatened species i believe.

If I remember right, the area that they deemed critical pygmy rabbit habitat was near Moses lake. Numbers were increasing,... then...a fire went through the area and decimated the population. Haven't heard much since.

Fire in the Columbia basin.
There's also rabbit hemorrhagic disease that they're dealing with now too. It was affecting only the European(domestic) rabbits but has now morphed and is killing cottontails and jackrabbits across the country. They're vaccinating the pygmy rabbits as much as they can to protect them. That disease is very lethal.
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