A few days ago I decided to do a short early morning hike to a cascade I’ve been meaning to check out for a while now. While pretty, it didn’t lend itself well to photos but I was yelled at on the hike by several of these guys, pikas. Yell isn’t the right word of course because they make a bleat sound when alerting other pikas of an intruder. On my way back I opted to try to photograph these small relatives of rabbits. Yes, I know, they look more like a mouse but they are actually closely related to rabbits and hares. Fortunately I found a cooperative pika who was too busy building his or her haystacks, grass supplies to get them through the winter months, to care about me too much.