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Image Taken on 23 Aug 2023 at 18:50    Image of day on 19 Oct 2023

The Hare, with particularly dark ears, seems to frequent the end of the orchard and area immediately outside despite it now being more like a building site.


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Image Taken on 15 Oct 2023 at 17:30    Image of day on 28 Nov 2023

2 weeks later this Hare seems to be almost 'resident' at this South West corner.


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Image Taken on 05 Jun 2017 at 12:06    Image of day on 28 Jul 2017

This Hare didn't seem bothered by our presence even at Noon. It quietly turned round and seemed to 'Nod off'. We left it in peace.


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Image Taken on 19 Apr 2020 at 12:03    Image of day on 09 May 2020

In the daytime we saw only Magpies visiting to eat the roadkill Hare - not one sighting of any other Corvid despite the area being awash with Rooks and a few Jackdaws.


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Image Taken on 19 Apr 2020 at 09:01    Image of day on 09 May 2020

4 days later, at the end of our access track at about 8.45 a.m. we spotted a mound of brown fur lying in the middle of the road. We took a barrow up the road to it and sadly discovered that it was a Hare which we brought back to the meadow camera site. We have to assume that this 'lost' Hare got through the pig-net and onto the road and met it's end under the wheels of a passing vehicle.


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Image Taken on 03 Jul 2023 at 07:16    Image of day on 28 Aug 2023

Finally deciding to depart, the hare lolloped across the concrete towards the grass outside our east hedge.


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Image Taken on 05 May 2014 at 06:30    Image of day on 02 Jul 2014

In the atypical quiet of a public Holiday early morning the lack of traffic along the business centre track tempted out the hares. This hare running across the track was photographed at about 4 fps (so about 1.5 seconds here) though the frame rate was slightly irregular because the camera wasn't set up for it - these creatures just won't wait until you are ready!


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Image Taken on 05 Mar 2022 at 13:21    Image of day on 05 Apr 2022

Seeing Hares has always been a rare event here, so when we catch one on-the-run we keep a finger on the camera button ...


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Image Taken on 05 Mar 2022 at 13:21    Image of day on 05 Apr 2022

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Image Taken on 03 May 2021 at 07:10    Image of day on 05 Jun 2021

A Hare making a long run over the sprouting crop in the Farm's field. There are 4 times more images than shown here as the Hare disappeared into the distance. The Hare is remarkably well concealed brown on brown despite us pushing the contrast as high as reasonable.


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Image Taken on 21 Oct 2016 at 10:52    Image of day on 04 Dec 2016

The sprouting wheat crop has brought back the Hares. Here there are 2 - one quietly nibbling the delicious fresh wheat sprouts (lower left) while the other, for reasons we didn't spot, was accelerating it's way over the crop. The gull was an unexpected incidental.


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Image Taken on 21 Oct 2016 at 10:53    Image of day on 04 Dec 2016

A second or two later the Hare seems to have reached full speed. The frame rate is a bit irregular due to continuous auto-focussing.


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Image Taken on 31 Jan 2019 at 10:28    Image of day on 26 Feb 2019

This Hare made a lazy gambol across the winter wheat crop before stopping for a nibble.


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Image Taken on 19 Jun 2022 at 05:59    Image of day on 07 Aug 2022

This is a field margin along the edge of the bridleway to our north. We never manage to take a Hare who rests here by surprise - they can see us way before we arrive from either direction.


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Image Taken on 10 May 2025 at 07:27    Image of day on 23 Jun 2025

An earlier than usual walk north along the farm Road catches this moment of a Hare sprinting along the North bridleway.


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Image Taken on 10 May 2025 at 07:27    Image of day on 23 Jun 2025

Extracted from the above montage is these three near the middle.
All the images are of similar quality and we can email you the whole montage at camera resolution on request.


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Image Taken on 21 Jun 2015 at 17:38    Image of day on 23 Aug 2015

From the other side of a hedge (just our heads showing) we didn't seem to be considered an immediate threat, and this Hare ran down the grass/bare soil by the crop at just the right speed to get a close to accurate montage. We have slightly stretched the gap between 2nd and 3rd from the right to avoid overlap - all the rest are accurate. The white foreground is the concrete farm road.


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Image Taken on 26 May 2017 at 06:01    Image of day on 21 Jul 2017

In last weeks 'Springwatch' we were amazed to see the film-makers reduced to using an infra-red camera drone to even find a Hare. We had no idea we were so lucky to see them even intermittently while out walking near the start of the day.


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Image Taken on 14 May 2014 at 08:24    Image of day on 09 Jul 2014

Part of a Hare running along the farm track grass boarder. When running at speed both front legs move behind the rear legs as you see in the second image from the right.


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Image Taken on 26 May 2017 at 06:08    Image of day on 21 Jul 2017

This montage is very stretched along the line of the walk. Hares look so awkward when ambling about, but the gait clearly works for them.


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