Hares in the garden

[Vegemiteandhoneyontoast]

I work in a large rural garden and this year hares have appeared there. We've seen an adult and two leverets running about and whilst there isn't any obvious damage, as yet, I don't have any experience with hares and don't know what they get up to. It's a very open garden so there's no keeping them out.

Anyone have advice or experience to offer, please?

What is it about hares? There's something just so beautiful and dignified about them.

I have seen a hare once IRL. Gorgeous.

My total bucket list though is to see a snake. Preferably a grass snake but an adder will do.

The owner of the garden sent these rather fuzzy photos of one of the leverets.

Aaaaahhhh...... [melts]

Hares just hunker down, they dig them selves a small scrape - If you're not sure if you’re looking at a sitting hare in a field watch as you get closer, if it gets smaller its a hare if it stays the same size its a stone! They’ll sit tight till the last minute before running, confident that they can outpace a predator.
Here, In the spring when they are boxing you can see up to 10 together, oblivious in their scrapping until you get quite close! Love them.

I have an accidental house hare. His name is Argyll and my Dd rescued him from some barley machinery when he was just born. I managed to hand rear him and he did not read the hare manual that hand raised hares freak out and want released, imprinted on me and I’m his Mama. He is a one person hare and gets rather jealous though, dd2 and him do not get on, he likes dd1 and tolerates DH. He especially enjoys dive bombing DH from above when he falls asleep on the sofa He chooses our late evening tv viewing, destroys walls and sofas with no apologies and is quite genuinely the love of my life (sorry DH you have been demoted)

That sounds amazing and fascinating, @Objectionhearsayspeculation, if a little complicated.* *How long has the hare been living with you?

Where did those asterisks come from?