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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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TheGrey1houndSpeaks · 31/03/2019 23:53

God, that picture is beautiful...

SingingMyOwnSpecialSong · 31/03/2019 23:54

Often see them around here, rural south east Scotland. I love them. Disturbed one just a couple of feet from me walking the dog in stubble fields last autumn, luckily ddog has no prey/chase instincts whatsoever. Have also accidentally followed them for ages in the car late at night as they go a bit stupid and won’t get of the road. A treat to get a good look at them, but i’m always scared another car will come along and hurt them.

DramaAlpaca · 31/03/2019 23:59

Lovely hare photo Smile

I've never seen a live badger. There are loads of then around here, but I've only seen accident victims sadly.

I've never seen a kingfisher in the UK or Ireland but was very excited to spot one on holiday in Spain a few years ago.

brizzlemint · 01/04/2019 01:51

If you want to see a kingfisher book a boat trip at Symonds Yat as there are lots there. The River Severn is another good bet for them too.

TheQueef · 01/04/2019 04:49

On the back of this thread I spent hours watching the field yesterday.
A handful of feral pigeon and several dog walkers, no nature no hares Sad

Natsku · 01/04/2019 05:54

In FIL's garden

Natsku · 01/04/2019 05:57

There are some parts of nature I'm glad not to have seen in the wild though, a couple of years ago I was walking in a forest and saw the tell-tale signs of bears but luckily did not encounter any, just a wild hippy.

TaMereAPoilDevantPrisu · 01/04/2019 08:36

I'm guessing you live not too far from me bloodywhitecat Smile

OhYouBadBadKitten · 01/04/2019 08:41

That's a stunning photo bloodywhitecat

I've never seen a hare :( we do get hedgehogs in the garden and badgers down the road, but a hare would be amazing.

Spudlet · 01/04/2019 08:44

I see hares most days here. They like the field opposite our house. My dog took it upon himself to chase one once - he practically had to be carried home and I think the hare was just getting warmed up Grin Ten years later and he still hasn't bothered again!

We also have deer all over the place, muntjac and fallow. And there is a barn owl that hunts the verge, and some kind of sparrow hawk that occasionally rocks up in the garden, and a green woodpecker.

This is a big shooting area so there are plenty of copses and cover crops left for the game, which benefits wildlife generally.

Spudlet · 01/04/2019 08:46

I saw a kingfisher here at the back of the supermarket (there's a river!). And I saw an otter once, and what was a fair few stoats where I used to work.

DGRossetti · 01/04/2019 09:51

I've never seen a live badger. There are loads of then around here, but I've only seen accident victims sadly.

I'm sure I read a while back that a lot of dead badgers by roadsides aren't roadkill but dumped by the scum that run badger baiting (checks to see that it is 2019 ...). I'm not a massive fan of extreme penalties, but throwing them naked into a pit of orphaned badgers seems too soft to me ....

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TressiliansStone · 01/04/2019 11:08

I'm a good ol' age and this is my first hare, The Queef!

This thread has reminded me that somewhere I have a photo of a kingfisher – definitely a "WTF is THAT?!" moment. But that's because it was nigh on a foot tall and sitting cool as a cucumber on the promenade railings.Shock

Turns out pied kingfishers are quite large, and plentiful in the Eastern Cape (South Africa).

Why was I not informed?!

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iklboo · 01/04/2019 16:31

We're too urban. We have grey squirrels that terrorise cats and will take peanuts from your hand though.

Whitelisbon · 01/04/2019 16:44

Sometimes I forget how lucky we are.
I see hares all the time. Rabbits too. And deer. I've done more emergency stops to avoid deer than anything else! One shot out of the verge in front of me on the motorway a few weeks ago. I missed it - sheer luck and nothing else, it bounded over the central reservation and straight into a car going the other way Sad
We have a few badgers, hundreds of pheasants (which like to run across the road in front of cars as well), foxes, hedgehogs... there's otters on the river, and hundreds of frogs.
No red squirrels though, plenty of grey ones.

Whitelisbon · 01/04/2019 16:45

Oh, and owls, hawks, sea eagles, and many others that I don't know the names of!

DGRossetti · 01/04/2019 17:02

We hear owls occasionally.

DW is sure we had a Red Kite regularly perching on a shed a few years ago.

Foxes a go-go (the snow last year revealed they prowl around our house a lot more than I every thought ....).

Also a few years ago, about 9pm, we were having a ciggie out front, and a hedgehog snuffled past on the pavement.

There are 5 cats that patrol around here too ....

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