Desert Dwelling Blacktail Jackrabbits: Can't A Fella Get Some Privacy?

Great post and interesting read, learned something new today. Loved the pictures.

Very cool photos - & the ears on these jackrabbits are AMAZING!

Nice action pics of those odd looking creatures.  I ran into some of their cousins in SE Montana once.  While walking out in the long grass the little suckers would dash out in front of you at just the wrong time.  Several of the little buggers would run upright, using only their back feet.  It was a sight to see, but they were way too quick for my camera. 

I have never seen a rabbit with such large ears before!!!

Mike, I love those ears and how they HOP too. GREAT photos.... good job.

And if that bird was named Elmer, we'd be hearing, "I'm hunting wabbits!"

Mike...

Wow, those are some big ears! Great shots, as always and a very interesting portrait of your part of the world!

Mike, thanks for adding the clarification....

Love the presentation of your local Tucson Jackrabbits, Mike. We have either several Jackrabbit families or one really big one living outside our window/door store in Medford. Drives our dog crazy when she visits. Don't know what kind they are, though. You've challenged me to find out!

Mike, Great pics, we have something similar in Montana.  They're called Jackalopes!  LOL!

Mike,

They do have some pretty big ears and I wonder if they can out run a eagle?

I sometimes thought my mother was a jackrabitt. No disrespect, it is just i could whisper something and see would hear it. Hey maybe REALTORS® should grow jackrabbit ears and listen a bit more. Can't wait for your next photo post of the elusive desert jackalope.

Hi Mike, those were really some WOW photos. I actually said out loud as I looking at them. I didn't even read the post yet, LMAO. No worries I am heading right back up there and will probably write another comment, LOL.

You're right Mike - they're all over the place on our farm in Las Cruces - keeping 'em out of our garden was how I learned to shoot a .22!  More cottontails than Jackrabbits though - the jacks are more skittish & wary than the cottontails (& a lot smarter!).

How neat and I learn something new every day.  I had always thought a rabbit and hare were the same.  Great pictures and in fast sequence no less!  I hope the Cara Cara didn't get it.

Sue of Robin and Sue

Well,  I was gonna say, tastes like chicken, but somebody said they don't taste good.  

That is cool that you caught that 'dust bath'.  I didn't know they did that.  

If you get a real shot of a jackalope, you will have lived up to your name...  Miracle Mike!  Just sayin'!  LOL

Mike - did you take the picture of the eagle right before he had rabbit lunch? I've seen hawks flying with snakes in their talons, they seem fearless.

Hi Mike, Such impressive photos. They are not really that cute though, kinda leggy, if you know what I mean, LOL. That eagle would have been a post all by itself if I  had been lucky enough to encounter one. Beautiful bird. The colors on him are really attractive.  I have a collection of Eagles.  I adopted it as an inspiration in my life to always " SOAR" . I think I got that idea a lot of years years ago when I felt like I was just clucking around with a bunch of turkeys, LMAO.