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12113 ft saw 1
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Is it a mouse? a squirrel? someones escaped pet hamster?Nope,its a Pika. Related to rabbits, they live in rock piles in the high mountains of the west, as well as Asia, were they make their broken kazoo calls from the rocks when they see danger,real or imagined.
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Long Lake, Rock Creek, Inyo County, Sierra Nevada, CA
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1 in talus field above Evolution Lake, Kings Canyon National Park, CA, USA. Not uncommon to hear or see 4 individuals while hiking trail on north shore of Lake.
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Pika on west side of Lost Man Pass.
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Pika is in the center of the frame moving away from the camera. You can see the ears. It was moving very quickly, hard to capture. (This photo was taken with my DSLR and uploaded later, GPS location was taken from the Inaturalist location recorded by the phone in the same area.)
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Elevation approximately 7,400' or 2,250 m. This is the lowest I've seen a pika colony in the Sierra Nevada. The end of the Tokopah Falls trail from Lodgepole Camp passes right through the start of their talus habitat, and this picture is from right next to the trail. The talus here is adjacent to riparian and shrub dominated habitats, with woods also nearby.
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One Pika on a talus slope was seen from the South Gate Meadows trail. We watched it for 42 minutes. We previously had seen a Pika in this same location on 2013-10-23.