Sure looks like a Black-tailed Jackrabbit. Good sighting. They don't seem to
be particularly common anymore. If you go to the state fish and wildlife web
site and search for the Gap predicted distribution maps, you'll find there
is considerable "core" range within Yakima County though the agricultural
lands in the Yakima River bottom wasn't predicted to be core habitat which
doesn't mean you couldn't find one there given the fairly close proximity of
habitat that is considered more suitable.

Here's a link to the Black-tailed Jackrabbit map.

http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/gap/gapdata/mammals/gifs/leca.gif

Kelly McAllister

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Hobbs" <birdmarymoor at verizon.net>
To: "Tweeters (E-mail)" <TWEETERS at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:52 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] OT: Jackrabbit question


> Tweets - Late on Monday, July 27, I photographed a jackrabbit along
> Pumphouse Rd. near Toppenish in Yakima County. Looking in my mammal book,
> it looks to me like a Black-tailed Jackrabbit. However, that same book
> doesn't show that species ranging into Yakima County. Is my ID wrong or
> the range map?
>
> Photos are at http://www.marymoor.org/MCHPersonal/Jackrabbit.htm
>
> Thanks
>
> == Michael Hobbs
> == Kirkland, WA
> == http://www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
> == http://www.marymoor.org/BirdBlog.htm
> == birdmarymoor at verizon.net
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