Walking to a known good place to see hares near home today my wife I were rewarded with 8 or 9 hares sitting in a field. We were watching from a well screened footpath and the hares got up and started to chase each other about. We were well hidden enough for 2 of them to come straight towards us and then across in front without seeing us. The only down side for viewing was they were coming at us with the sun behind them so my best pictures were of them going away from us.
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Trevor
I returned to the field with the hares a week later and they were still there. It was late afternoon this time so the sun was behind me so much better lighting but they were further away.
The result was better lit photos but not quite so sharp but given how far away they were I'm happy with the results and until last week I'd never seen hares boxing.
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Regards, Hazel
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Tony
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Brilliant photos Trevor.
I've yet to see boxing hares, that said, its rare I see hares, except when I've been up in the mountains.
Mike
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Walking the local footpaths at the weekend I got a more usual view of a Hare, running off from cover near the path. For a change I was quick enough to fire off a few speculative shots at the running Hare and had a rare success at panning and captured a couple of reasonable pictures. With the ISO set too low for a cloudy day at 125 and a shutter speed of 1/125 second they're better than I had any right to expect. Other sightings that day were Yellowhammers, some Linnets and unusual for me around here, a Reed Bunting.