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Mountain Hare - Lepus Timidus
The mountain hare (Lepus timidus), also known as blue hare, tundra hare, variable hare, white hare, snow hare, alpine hare, and Irish hare, is a Palearctic hare that is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats.
In the European Alps the mountain hare lives at elevations from 700 to 3800 m, depending on biographic region and season.The development of alpine winter tourism has increased rapidly since the last few decades of the 20th century, resulting in expansion of ski resorts, growing visitor numbers, and a huge increase in all forms of snow sport activities. A 2013 study looking at stress events and the response of mountain hares to disturbance concluded that those hares living in areas of high winter recreational activities showed changes in physiology and behaviour that demanded additional energy input at a time when access to food resources is restricted by snow. It recommended ensuring that forests inhabited by mountain hares were kept free of tourist development, and that new skiing areas should be avoided in mountain hare habitat, and that existing sites should not be expanded.
In August 2016, the Scottish animal welfare charity OneKind launched a campaign on behalf of the mountain hare, as a way of raising awareness of mountain hare culls taking place across the country and in garnering public support for the issue. Mountain hares are routinely shot in the Scottish Highlands both as part of paid hunting "tours" and by gamekeepers managing red grouse populations (who believe that mountain hares can be vectors of diseases which affect the birds). Much of this activity is secretive but investigations have revealed that tens of thousands of hares are being culled every year. The campaign, which urges people to proclaim that "We Care For The Mountain Hare", will culminate with the charity urging the Scottish government to legislate against commercial hunting and culling of the iconic Scottish species. The campaign has revealed widespread public support for a ban on hare hunting in Scotland.
Unlike the brown hare, which is thought to have been introduced by the Celts during the Iron Age, the mountain hare is native to Britain. However, it is only native to the Scottish Highlands and was translocated elsewhere.
One of my favourite roads in Wales, Bwlch y Groes - Llanymawddwy, Southern Snowdonia, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
A couple inviting ponds on Beartooth Pass that would nicely quench summer's heat.
I suspect some mosquitoes would enjoy some swimmers as well. Would be tempting regardless.
Enjoy a wonderful Wednesday!
A male Mountain Bluebird, perched on a fench post! He did not stay perched for very long, as he flew off to capture insects. Their brillant blue colored feathers are stunning. We traveled to Bickleton, Washington, to see these beauties. The Mountain Bluebirds migrate to Bickleton in the Spring to breed and raise their young.
There's no mountain train. I'm running low on images that I think are interesting so I just stuck these three together to make one..:) I know, I've been watching too much Creative Live.com. The train is the newest image. I starting taking my camera everywhere in hopes of getting a good shot and when I was coming home Yesterday, I spotted this train headed north coming out of Mexico and pulled over to take the shot.
About 2 months ago, I told the Parks Foundation I would lead a hike along Barton Creek Greenbelt on National Park Day. I figured March, central Texas, Spring weather...Tomorrow at 9 am it will be 39 degrees..:)) Imagine my surprise. I know, it'll be fine after the first mile..;)
This image is a little day glow. It got away from me some how.
Cradle Mountain, Tasmania. Taken a few years ago on film with a Canon EOS camera.
I'm working on a great excuse to get back here with the family sometime this year.
I took this picture when I was on my way to Rijal Alma, from Abha City. It was drizzling throughout the way till we cross Abha city. I was mesmerized by this beautiful location.
Yosemite National Park is an amazing place for landscape photography. On this day it was raining and overcast until the last little bit of light in the evening.
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Taken Cairngorms National Park, Scotland. If approached slowly and carefully these hares can be very confiding. Spent some time with this subject as it sheltered from bitterly cold gale force winds near the summit of a Cairn off the Findhorn valley.
A small mountain stream leads downhill to Mount Sunday and the Rangitata River in New Zealand's Ashburton Lakes district, March 2016.
hooray, my second pano - shot in august 2020 in Corinthia/Austria. acutally, the mountain ridge is the border between the states of Corinthia and Tyrol, just behind the Wangenitzsee at an altitude of approx 2500m above sea level. that day a helicopter provided material for fixing the goods cable car that ends next to the Wangenitzseehütte.
Canon 5DM3
Canon 24-70mm L f/2.8
35 shots at 24mm and f/6.3 covering a view of almost 160 degrees
stitched with Hugin, minor editing in Photoshop
I love the way that the sun fills in areas in the mountains...while others are left in shade...Storm wanted to sit in this sunny spot and do a bit of meditating!
A great day up in the mountains today made more wonderful by an encounter with this very cute Mountain Hare :-)
I was able to capture a spring thunderstorm rumbling across the mountains what an amazing experience.