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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: El_morenito on October 07, 2022, 06:47:51 PM

Title: Pygmy Sighting in rural east wa?
Post by: El_morenito 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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Post by: carpsniperg2 on October 07, 2022, 08:15:51 PM: They are around for sure. I see them a few different places.
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Post by: Alchase 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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Post by: Gobble Gobble on October 07, 2022, 09:13:44 PM: I used to see them in Kennewick at the Vista Field Airport.
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Post by: MtnMuley 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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Post by: jackelope 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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Post by: metlhead 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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Post by: metlhead 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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Post by: El_morenito on October 11, 2022, 10:14:43 AM: I know huh,This state getting a little too much with the bios :yeah: :yeah:
Quote from: metlhead on October 08, 2022, 04:21:04 PM
Shhhh! Bios will have that area locked down to access and prolly start breeding orcas there.
Title: Re: Pygmy Sighting in rural east wa?
Post by: Sandberm on October 11, 2022, 10:22:35 AM: Quote from: jackelope 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.

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.
Title: Re: Pygmy Sighting in rural east wa?
Post by: jackelope on October 11, 2022, 10:22:44 AM: Quote from: metlhead on October 08, 2022, 04:21:04 PM
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.
Title: Re: Pygmy Sighting in rural east wa?
Post by: jackelope on October 11, 2022, 10:35:14 AM: Quote from: Sandberm on October 11, 2022, 10:22:35 AM
Quote from: jackelope 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.

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.