Stone's Throw Farm

I think I saw a snowshoe hare at Stone’s Throw today. I was tromping through the little piece of woods between the driveway and the fields, and when I passed the brush that we piled there when we cleared for the driveway, something big and white bounded out of the brush. I didn’t get a great look at it since it was headed away from me, but what else could it have been? And why didn’t I check out its tracks? I did see bunny tracks elsewhere, and according to the MN DNR, there are snowshoe hares in this area. I’m amused because when I was telling Dave about our lovely brush piles last fall, he said, “Well, it’ll be nice habitat for bunnies.” You were right, Dave!

I borrowed this hare photo from Richard Hahn, who apparently took this little guy’s portrait in Rocky Mountain National Park. Elden and I considered going there for our camping trip last spring, but ended up visiting the Columbia River Gorge instead. Fun fact, eh?