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First wild Brown Hare of 2023. Captured in the pre- sunset golden light.
It looks like the same hare I photographed near this spot in March 2021 and again in March 2022. Distinctive cut tip to tip of left ear...
Hopefully a sign of things to come...
It's been so wet through March the hares haven't been very active, but it feels like things are changing now (fingers crossed).
I photographed this Mountain Hare in its white winter pelage in the West Yorkshire part of the Peak District National Park. The scientific name Lepus timidus means shy hare, because the usual view is of one running away. But they will sit very tight, relying on their camouflage until they feel it is time to run. But their camouflage is adapted for the higher mountains and more snowy climate of Scotland, and they stand out like a sore thumb when snow is not on the ground. That is because they were introduced to the Peak District in the nineteenth century from Scotland, and the lack of predators in the Peak District means there is little evolutionary pressure to benefit the ones that remain brown through the winter. In Ireland Mountain Hare is the native hare found throughout, in lowlands too. Here the Mountain Hares remain brown throughout winter.
Usually Brown hares have not been active when its snowing. But this they vere active. So managed to snatch this shot.
A couple of nights back we had quite a beautiful full moon and both my brother and sister who live in coastal areas were texting me photos of the moon rising and reflecting in the harbour waters so I thought I should capture an inland countryside full moon so they could see what they were missing here (or maybe that should be hare!) Just a bit of fun really!
© Dominic Scott 2022
I went outside for two minutes to the end of my garden with my camera and this 'hare' suddenly appeared in the field behind my garden.
I spotted this action from our kitchen window, ran to grab the big boy (Sigma 150-600 on a D7500) and grab as many shots as I could. The hare chased this rook? for quite some time, even jumping to grab at it. Most of the shots were way too out of focus, hand held and at quite a distance, hence, just a few. The final shot I got showed the hare breathing heavily, quite a cloud of steam breath coming from its mouth :)
The hare reaches 80 kilometers per hour. Here you can see how the dewdrops fly in the early morning.
Brown hares can jump three meters far and two meters high! Their abrupt changes of direction – hitting hooks – are famous. When fleeing, brown hares reach top speeds of up to 80 kilometers per hour.
Took a trip over to Rathlin Island earlier in the year, there were quite a few Hares around and I managed to get close to this one ...
Moments later we were being dive bombed by two Great Arctic Skua and off he ran ...
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29-5-19
Finally had one stay visible long enough to have his photo taken...just about! Young one as fairly small I think.