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Have I just seen a hare?!

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TressiliansStone · 31/03/2019 13:50

Lolloping across the field in a rabbit-like manner, but honestly the size of a small dog?

I don't think I've ever seen one before!

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JesusInTheCabbageVan · 31/03/2019 21:07

If your first thought was 'WTF is THAT' then it was a hare Very jealous, haven't seen one for years.

Chilledout11 · 31/03/2019 21:09

We get them in our garden. Was shocked when we first moved here. Absolutely love them.

Lovestonap · 31/03/2019 21:12

Out early one Morning when I was a child and saw some hares boxing in a field. They spring really high!

DGRossetti · 31/03/2019 21:12

Unfortunately we call him Deerhunter Dave. He calls around every weekend with heart, liver, kidney from a deer he has just shot for our dog.

I like venison ...

at the end of the day isn't responsible culling better for the environment ? And doesn't the UK have more deer than ever ?

sunnyday1976 · 31/03/2019 21:15

Rural North Yorks and see them a few times a week, and nearly every day at the moment before the crops get too tall. There were 4 in the field next to our house one morning last week. They are lovely.

Al2O3 · 31/03/2019 21:30

We have hare here and on walks around the field headlands they are crouched under the low foliage. Mostly, when you are upon them, they will dart out across the field, but just occasionally will remain flat, ears down, but because I know what I am looking for, and know exactly where their scrapes are, I can spot them and manouvre gently away so as not to frighten them.

I saw to dark hairs in the shower yesterday but they were pubic ones.

Youngandfree · 31/03/2019 21:35

I love living rurally as my garden is always visited by hares, rabbits and pheasants (pretty much daily) every few weeks we have deer and foxes 🦊. And hedgehog 🦔 every so often.

Moonflower12 · 31/03/2019 21:36

@Chilledout11 - So very jealous. My absolute favourite animal.

We used to have them in the field opposite our house when we lived in Rutland. Now we're further south we don't see them. I do miss them.

littlebillie · 31/03/2019 22:41

I've seen then loping in the lanes in Derbyshire they are incredibly special. My DF lived on a farm as a child and he would observe them jumping diagonal a few feet to break the fox trail - very clever

evilharpy · 31/03/2019 22:51

I've seen a hare. What I have not seen is a red squirrel (in areas where they are meant to live) or a kingfisher. I'm not convinced either of them exist.

littlebillie · 31/03/2019 22:56

I saw a red squirrel today in the Lake District and king Fisher in a local stream

evilharpy · 31/03/2019 23:00

littlebillie no offence but I hate you a bit. I've been hunting for years.

littlebillie · 31/03/2019 23:00

Evil seeing these are look I saw a greenfinch today 😁

littlebillie · 31/03/2019 23:03

And a Siskin

littlebillie · 31/03/2019 23:04

Evil hunting?

Unescorted · 31/03/2019 23:05

Dark Peak here - quite a few brown hare and when we are lucky mountain hare. They are stunning. I love going up in winter to see their white coats.

Unescorted · 31/03/2019 23:09

Evil you need to look more - both exist. I have seen kingfishers just north of Leeds and red squirrels in both Cumbria and North Merseyside.

littlebillie · 31/03/2019 23:11

red squirrel 🐿 today also a stoat

Tolleshunt · 31/03/2019 23:16

Never seen a red squirrel or a hare. Would love to see both.

Have seen a water vole and a pine marten. The water vole was pretty insouciant, but the pine marten was so astonished to see me sitting quietly on a log that it did a cartoon-style double/take, before hightailing it.

I have been privileged enough to see a kingfisher. Not in the many country walks, however - by a little brook in Putney, of all places

evilharpy · 31/03/2019 23:17

Not that kind of hunting! Just going to places where they claim to live, National Trust properties and the like, but never managed to spot either.

My dad used to see both regularly where he worked (in NI) but on days when he brought me along they apparently heard I was coming and hid

evilharpy · 31/03/2019 23:24

Oh I've seen water voles a few times, we used to live by a river. A giant terrapin thing lived in there too, I'm guessing someone got sick of their pet and dumped it in there and it thrived. There was also a completely tame heron up the river a bit that stood outside the same house all the time because they gave it food scraps.

bloodywhitecat · 31/03/2019 23:29

I am lucky enough to see them almost daily round here (deepest, darkest rural Suffolk) in fact, one day we wandered round a bend in the road to see two young hares playing in the evening sunlight. I was lucky enough to catch this shot as they scarpered.

brizzlemint · 31/03/2019 23:41

We see badgers quite often but I've not seen a hare for ages

Filibustering · 31/03/2019 23:46

Lots of them in the fields around here at dusk. Leics/ Rutland border.

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TressiliansStone · 31/03/2019 23:49

Oh that's sublime, bloodywhitecat.

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