For pulling over briefly to watch a Hare?

[AintNobodyHereButUsChickens]

I was heading home on a long drive earlier today and I was on a very long, very straight road and I spotted a Hare loping across the road about 100yds in front of me, when I got to where I’d seen it go, I saw it sat in the field so I pulled up and watched it, and I even took a little video! As I mentioned, the road was very long and straight so I could see a mile in both directions and there was nothing coming whatsoever so I wasn’t inconveniencing any other drivers. All in all I was on the side of the road for no more than a minute before it bounded off and disappeared.

DH rang me a little while later and I excitedly told him about the Hare and that I’d sat and watched it and he made me feel a bit silly for being excited about seeing one. He said they’re ‘not exactly rare’ and that he sees them all the time. The thing is, he used to be a roadworker and now he’s a builder so he’s spent years and countless hours driving endless country roads, so no doubt he has seen loads of Hares over the years. But I’m a SAHM and rarely go out of town. I obviously don’t see Hares on the school run, or in the gym or in town at the shops so it is a rare sighting for me!

Would anyone else have been excited to see a Hare like I was? Here’s a screenshot of the video, sorry it’s so grainy, by the time I’d grabbed my phone it had gotten much further away from me so I had to zoom in!

I braved it. Cool little thing that.

It’s a kind of beetle 🤗

💛 Also known as May Bug or May Beetle. Feel the CC love! 😁

I’ve never seen one so I would be excited too!

I have found my people 🤗 I’m so pleased mostly everyone else would’ve done the same! It was beautiful, and HUGE! Also on the same road, but when I was heading in the opposite direction earlier on, a Kestrel swooped down really low right in front of me and I saw it in so much detail! They’re almost never that low down so that was a lovely treat too 🥰

I think finding joy in passing little moments like this is what makes life wonderful. It’s a shame your husband is such a miserable prick about it, even if he wouldn’t have been impressed himself, why did he feel the need to be so belittling as to piss all over your parade like that? Sorry you have to live with that.

Those who don’t get a warm feeling at things in nature are the poorer.

Most of us don’t get to see them regularly. I was entranced my first time (age 50+), too. They are so different from rabbits, when you see them in action. In ways that are hard to describe!

They are like racehorses compared to Shetland ponies, compared to rabbits. Bunnies potter about, looking cuddly. Hares bound and feel so much more alert and focused- muscular and athletic as opposed to cuddly toy vibes.

me too. I hear the owls but don't see them but I love it when the bats appear which is any day now. They are very casual and swoop quite close to me.

Definitely very very reasonable of you! Always take time to enjoy nature. It's wonderful!

I always get very excited if I see a hare or a badger. I would have done exactly the same as you! It's lovely to enjoy nature.

I was once looking out of the kitchen window at our back garden, and wondered why there were no birds to be seen or heard, when it's usually quite lively. Then I spotted something in the tree - fetched the binoculars - 🎵 dun dun der! 🎵 there lurked the sparrowhawk, waiting and watching... No wonder the other birds had scarpered! Called DD3 who was 14 at the time to see. We watched it for ages. Apparently other birds have an alert system to warn one another when the SH is about - stay away.

It’s lovely when you see something so beautiful. I was driving with a friend in Suffolk when we spotted a weasel running along the verge, neither of us had ever seen one before and were ridiculously excited!

Hares are amazing

husbands can be dicks though

I've also been ridiculously thrilled whenever I've got a teeny tiny toad to hop onto my open palm briefly. Never turned into a handsome prince, though. 🤣

You are not unreasonable.

I was out in the country on my horse recently and saw a barn owl in daylight, the young lads in the hot hatch coming down the lane towards me stopped to watch it. I also stood and watched.

To me, the ability to find joy in such, in theory, simple things , says a great deal about a person and in a positive way. My camera roll is full of lambs and hedgehogs and suchlike. A couple of weeks ago a sheep let me pet it, I was beside myself.

There is a little white horse on a farm near us, not seen it for months and we feared it had gone to the great stable in the sky, joy of joys it was back in its field at the weekend. I’d hate to be married to someone who, if I told them I’d seen an animal felt that they had to be dismissive. It’s his loss op.

Oh us we get them, the noise the other birds make is amazing, crows in particular are good at getting together and seeing them off.

I've never seen one. Tell DH to get a little more whimsy in his life.

This really. It was lovely that you were so excited about it and it’s good for us to slow down and watch nature.

So what if they’re common? Doesn’t mean they can’t be fascinating.

YANBU at all - so long as it was safe to pull over and there was room for other cars to pass then nothing wrong with it at all. Glad you got to see the hare. I see them all the time so I wouldn't pull over for one (though almost pulled over because I was so upset when I nearly ran one over, poor thing ran in front of me, then for some reason doubled back - was inches away from being hit) but I did pull over once to look at a helicopter that had landed in a field on the way to work and I'd definitely pull over to watch animals I don't see so often like elk and deer (probably wouldn't pull over for a bear though - as much as I'd love to stop and take photos I'd be scared! Not impossible either, a work mate saw one near work last year)

Oh I love animals of all sorts and always excited when I see something
we had a fox in the close last week! Enjoy the little things 🐰🐰🐰

I grew up in East Anglia where we were spoiled for hares, but where there are hares there are also hare coursers and we saw plenty of them too 😔

I often stop for things like this. There's a pond on a remote road here and I often sit for ages watching ducks and herons. It's peaceful and good for the soul.
You should visit here ...hares are protected in the valley thanks to Saint Melangell
https://stmelangell.org/