Brown hare at sunrise heading for the gate.

A hare quietly nibbling away on the fresh flowers in the cemetery!!... opps!

think he thought they were taken along for his nourishment.

Brown Hare - Lepus europaeus

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The brown hare is known for its long, black-tipped ears and fast running - it can reach speeds of 45mph when evading predators. It prefers a mosaic of farmland and woodland habitats and can often be spotted in fields.

Thought to have been introduced into the UK in Roman Times (or even earlier), the brown hare is now considered naturalised. It is most common in grassland habitats and at woodland edges, favouring a mosaic of arable fields, grasses and hedgerows. It grazes on vegetation and the bark of young trees and bushes. Brown hares do not dig burrows, but shelter in 'forms', which are shallow depressions in the ground or grass; when disturbed, they can be seen bounding across the fields, using their powerful hind legs to propel them forwards, often in a zigzag pattern. Brown hares are at their most visible in early spring when the breeding season encourages fighting or 'boxing'. Females can produce three to four litters of two to four young (known as leverets) a year.

Widespread, but absent from northern Scotland and the Scottish islands, except Islay, I'm reliably informed.

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Two Brown Hares feasting undercover at Frampton marsh.

Another from the frosty encounter recently...

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Spent hours with this this gorgeous Mountain Hare in Scotland allowed me to photograph his routine, such am honour

Male Brown Hares competing for a female

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Hunkered Down, in a ditch, as the sun was setting, in Norfolk

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Never tire of seeing these guys - my heart is in my mouth when one comes close...

Which do you prefer - close up or further away showing their environment?

There are more Pine Marten and Osprey images to come, but here's a couple from a while ago with the hares. I've not spent any time with them for about a couple of months now. The crops have been too high!

The field hare, also called hare for short, is a mammal from the hare family. The species inhabits open and semi-open landscapes. Its natural range covers large parts of the south-western Palearctic; however, due to numerous naturalisations, the brown hare is now found on almost all continents. Due to the strong intensification of agriculture, the population of the brown hare is declining in many regions of Europe. The Schutzgemeinschaft Deutsches Wild has declared the brown hare the animal of the year for 2001 and again for 2015.

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Der Feldhase, kurz auch Hase genannt, ist ein Säugetier aus der Familie der Hasen. Die Art besiedelt offene und halboffene Landschaften. Das natürliche Verbreitungsgebiet umfasst weite Teile der südwestlichen Paläarktis; durch zahlreiche Einbürgerungen kommt der Feldhase heute jedoch auf fast allen Kontinenten vor. Aufgrund der starken Intensivierung der Landwirtschaft ist der Bestand des Feldhasen in vielen Regionen Europas rückläufig. Die Schutzgemeinschaft Deutsches Wild erklärte den Feldhasen für das Jahr 2001 und erneut 2015 zum Tier des Jahres.

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Back to the Hares for a few more images. Hopefully I'll get a bit more time to spend with them this summer...

Lovely watching this hare munching on the barley

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Another series of leverets (Brown Hares) from the last few weeks...

I was worried for this fellow. It was small, but unusually confident, sitting in the area of the falcon family. I normally don't get that close to a hare.

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Irish hare on farmland,buncrana county donegal

A Snowshoe Hare munching on washed up cattails by the lake.

Sir Winston Churchill Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada.

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Also known as blue hares, white hares or snow hares. It's the peak of the breeding season at the moment, so these normally nocturnal animals are more active in the day than usual. Photographed in the Dark Peaks.

Brown Hare

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A great day up in the mountains today made more wonderful by an encounter with this very cute Mountain Hare :-)

Mountain Hare scratching an itch

Male hare chasing a female

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Brown hare on the lookout, they start to get very active now for mating season, Bavaria, Germany

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A Snowshoe Hare caught in mid-stride. Photo was taken in Ottawa, ON.

I used a combination of photos and merged them in photoshop elements to produce this Hare in the Moonlight.

Love photographing these beautiful creatures

Early morning brown hare grazing, another from my archives. Zoom in for details

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