Order Lagomorpha - hares, rabbits, and pikas
Mount Desert Island is home to 1 species in 1 genus in 1 family. Click on a link below or scroll down for more information.
   Leporidae (1 genus, 1 species)
      Lepus americanus - snowshoe hare

Leporidae
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Lepus americanus (snowshoe hare), seen north of road and just west of pond at Seawall:

It is much more common to find the scat of a snowshoe hare than to see the animal. The fallen white pine (Pinus strobus) below provided shelter and food (note the absence of bark on several branches) for at least one snowshoe hare during the winter of 2008–2009. The tree was (20 April 2009) located in the road bed of the old toll road to the summit of Cadillac Mountain [TFV, EMW, PKW].
   Lepus (genitive leporis) is the Latin noun (masculine, third declension) for hare.

Tracks (and sometimes scat) are often the only way most people can tell that a snowshoe hare has been in the area. And unless they are familiar with the way a hare travels, they may get the direction backward. The front feet land first and then the hind feet travel past where the front feet had landed. So, this hare was traveling toward the top of the picture.