Earlier today I posted reader Jeremy’s photo of a pika, both in close-up and then in the distance in its rocky environs. I looked at it for the longest time, even in the enlarged photo like the first one below, and couldn’t find the damn thing. Then I finally spotted it; it’s almost as hard as a nightjar.
I’ll put the original photo up first (click to enlarge it even more if you still want to look for the pika), and then a photo with the pika circled, sent by Jeremy (he called it “pika-boo”!). Hint: if you look at the original, the beast is just to the right of center:
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The reveal:
And an enlarged view:
I was way off. I thought it was on the far left about 60% of the way up the photograph.
I found it without resort to the red circle but probably would not have done so with out your “just to the right of centre” hint.
I wonder how many other pikas might be lurking in the picture!
I searched for that damn rodent, but I missed the hint so I had no chance. Sigh.
Apologies for my insufferable pedantry…but as Professor Coyne noted, pikas are actually lagomorphs (along with rabbits and hares), not rodents.
Varmint, then.
Really? I thought lagomorphs were a subset of rodents? You mean rabbits aren’t rodents? Sigh, I am getting all the things wrong these days.
I did find that one but I thought there was a second. If you start at the bottom right and go three stones across and then about a third of the way up there’s a small cave. It looks like there’s a pika in there too. I suppose it could be a rock but it seems like the right shape and it definitely seems to have an ear.