{"id":21220,"date":"2017-07-10T07:16:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T14:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21220"},"modified":"2017-07-10T07:16:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T14:16:34","slug":"harepin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21220","title":{"rendered":"Harepin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This Snowshoe Hare has a red pin through its ear — clearly, it is a harepin.<\/p>\n

Subscribers will be aware that I delight in having a hare in residence. When I saw yesterday’s lad, I initially assumed that it was my hare in residence. Apparently, not. That this particular hare is not actually my regular visitor is evident from the red pin in its ear — something not seen around the yard before.<\/p>\n

Yet, this does raise an interesting question: Who is tagging local snowshoe hares? And why are they doing so?<\/p>\n

A Snowshoe Hare in my yard bears a red pin through its ear. Why?
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