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Mammals - Hare Page 1
Image Taken on 21 Apr 2020
at 03:22 Image of day on 10 May 2020
At nearly 3.30 a.m. this Badger turns up to examine the still substantial
roadkill Hare remains.
The Badger may have blocked the beam while
feeding on it, or just wandered away - we don't know which.
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Image Taken on 21 Apr 2020
at 03:43 Image of day on 10 May 2020
20 minutes later this Badger drags away the roadkill Hare remains.
To us this looks like a different individual to the earlier visit.
Next morning, the site now empty, we looked for indications of where the
carcass was dragged, but found no signs.
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Image Taken on 25 Nov 2024
at 03:40 Image of day on 29 Dec 2024
In the small hours we get this glimpse of a Fox exiting the site with
what is most probably a Rabbit in their mouth.
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Image Taken on 03 May 2023
at 21:10 Image of day on 08 Jun 2023
By the next morning the dead Hare was gone, and on downloading images from the
trail cam at the Fox Hole we see a cub carrying the now light carcass into the Fox hole.
Running a wildlife sanctuary frees the inhabitants from some of the Human pressures,
but the carnivores do tend to eat their neighbours :-(
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Image Taken on 06 May 2022
at 19:16 Image of day on 12 Jun 2022
A different individual Hare we think, judging by the different markings on the ears.
This one bounding to the spot before stopping completely still.
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Image Taken on 12 Jul 2014
at 20:52 Image of day on 20 Sep 2014
The first record in 25 years of a Hare on our land. They may have
ventured here when we had just a barbed Wire fence - augmented
subsequently to stop stray sheep. But Hares are nervous animals
and might not like the camera noise and flash - this was the only
pic we got at this camera trap.
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Image Taken on 10 Mar 2026
at 10:49 Image of day on 09 Apr 2026
A more typical sighting of a Hare - this grey/brown blob 300m to the east turns out to be a Hare
hunkered down in the growing crop.
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Image Taken on 03 Jul 2023
at 07:17 Image of day on 28 Aug 2023
The Hare decided to go through the hedge into our patch, but surprisingly reappeared
at the same place, only to scamper away, mostly hidden by the uncut grass, to
vanish around the North East corner into the crop or a 'proper' entrance to our
patch.
Young hares can undoubtedly walk straight through uncut pig-net, and this
hare may remember when it didn't matter where you walked through!
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Image Taken on 02 Jun 2022
at 06:50 Image of day on 13 Jul 2022
This pristine Hare is probably a youngster inexperienced in the dangers of being
near Humans. Over a few minutes this one wandered up the Farm Road towards us
until perhaps 10 metres away. The Hare turned sideways and stopped, assessing
the 2 stationary creatures (us) standing on the grass.
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Image Taken on 02 Jun 2022
at 06:50 Image of day on 13 Jul 2022
Deciding that it was time to depart with a soupcon of haste, the Hare did an
about-turn and accelerated off.
The first image pics are about 375mS apart and still quite close
This image shows gaps of about 250mS apart and more spread out anyway
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Image Taken on 14 Mar 2026
at 15:17 Image of day on 17 Apr 2026
Lower left we have a Hare being watched suspiciously by the Reeves' Muntjac Deer on
the other side of the ditch at the south hedge gap
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Image Taken on 23 Apr 2023
at 08:06 Image of day on 08 Jun 2023
Hares have become regular visitors at the south hedge gap.
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Image Taken on 17 Nov 2024
at 16:52 Image of day on 23 Dec 2024
The freshly sown fields (Wheat - judging by the 1 metre cube sacks stacked up) doesn't
leave much cover for Hares. Welcome to the local refuge ...
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Image Taken on 03 Apr 2024
at 08:44 Image of day on 28 Apr 2024
Our south ditch (belonging to the Farm) is badly flooding this year.
This Hare finds the flooded ditch a good place to get a drink ...
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Image Taken on 09 Aug 2023
at 08:08 Image of day on 27 Sep 2023
This Hare ran up (centre) and stopped on the grass near the south hedge gap.
Look left. Look Right. All clear to stay for a moment.
Sounds like the 'Kerb Drill' 'drilled' into us 65 years ago - well it must have
worked!
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Image Taken on 21 Jun 2015
at 17:38 Image of day on 23 Aug 2015
We find hares magical. They seem to like the edge of the corn
crop, but disappear into the crop if disturbed.
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Image Taken on 14 Oct 2024
at 03:58 Image of day on 28 Nov 2024
This Hare lollops their way to the Woodland site.
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Image Taken on 15 Jun 2016
at 19:08 Image of day on 01 Aug 2016
A Hare inside the Woodland is very unusual - away from the long grass and cover.
This is the only image we got.
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Image Taken on 20 Jun 2016
at 18:01 Image of day on 03 Aug 2016
This Hare gradually become more uneasy at the arrival of the
photographer and finally lolloped off and hid in the crop.
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Image Taken on 10 Dec 2023
at 07:33 Image of day on 17 Jan 2024
A badly underexposed and out of focus effort of this Hare has been rescued
with the paint package to show the statuesque poise as they look at the camera.
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