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Snowshoe Hare - Lièvre d'Amérique
Lepus americanus
45.4005, -71.8837
Field Notes
Description:
size slightly larger than the cottontail rabbit, but smaller than the Arctic hare;
ears longer than the eastern cottontail, but short for a hare;
particularly long back legs for its size;
winter coat with white base of the hair dark;
tips of ears black;
tail brown above and white below with summer white tail in winter.
Habitat:
He lives wherever young conifers are present: forest, areas of regrowth and old burns covered with raspberry thicket of aspen, scrub, meadows, marshes and old cedar swamps, rivers edge.
Notes:
This little guy came out of the woods in front of me 50 feet and he ran towards me up to 10 feet. I think he thought I had a meal bonus .Next time I will have carrots . :))
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