Waskelly witto wabbit

 

Monday, June 8, 2009, by: Darlene McCullough, Tisdale: We are used to seeing the odd big Jack Rabbit dashing through the neighbourhood but lately the town has had smaller and less nervous visitors. Almost every part of town we are seeing brave rabbits usually only one at a time but on Sunday Darlene had three of these guys in her yard and they were not particularly preturbed at her being present.

Waskelly witto wabbits


Tisdale - Monday, June 8, 2009

About 9:30 this morning (Sunday) I had these visitors in my yard.

They were in the flower bed along my driveway.

I was surprised at how close they would let me come..

 

Editor's note: These rabbits seen here and the one that has visited our yard appear much smaller than the big Jack Rabbits we sometimes see and I thought they were bush rabbits but I was wrong.

What you see in these pictures are Lepus townsendii, white-tailed Jack rabbits which of courses are not rabbits at all but "hares".

Rabbits are actually short bodied much rounder and much much smaller and the variety found in Saskatchewan are "snow-shoed rabbits" or Sylvilagus nuttalli. 

Most people in Saskatchewan refer to the smaller rabbit as a "bush rabbit" and at times they can be very numerous.


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