The girls and I had a floriferous hike last week. The wildflowers were magnificent and the sky was the bluest blue. We saw and heard pikas, hoary marmots and ground squirrels. Did you know that pikas make hay piles in the summer? They let the ‘hay’ dry out and then haul it under the rocks so they can eat it all winter. Pikas are the smallest rabbit species and they do not hibernate.
I know, this is a lot of images for one post but really, you need to see the beauty of the mountains right now.
This is a pika haystack!
The pikas were stacking anemone seed heads like this!
Pikas live here.
