Stalking the hare....

[Caz]

Whilst driving too and from work for the last 4-6 weeks, I've often seen a female hare sitting in the grass border to a cereal field. Every time I stopped to try and catch her, she'd run away.

So I took to turning the radio off, getting the camera out a couple of bends before and down to second gear as I went by the field. After a pretty rotten day last Friday, I finally managed to get some shots of her whilst driving home - so was grinning like a cheshire cat by the time I got in.

They're not great quality, which is why I haven't put them up to critique, and I haven't managed to catch her since as the farmer's now cut the grass





Caz

[Pol]

Re: Stalking the hare....

I'm sure you were grinning, I would've been too!

They're super captures, both shots showing the enormous ears, an eye and that typical pose of an alert, wild and happy hare. Good on ya.

I've never yet managed to get any shots of hares or rabbits around here. We see them in the fields as we pass but there's rarely anywhere to stop. On the odd occasion when we manged to pull over - they'd scarpered. Very frustrating.

Pol

[Caz]

Re: Stalking the hare....

I've never yet managed to get any shots of hares or rabbits around here. We see them in the fields as we pass but there's rarely anywhere to stop. On the odd occasion when we manged to pull over - they'd scarpered. Very frustrating.

Pol

You were saying about scarpering??

That was actually taken between the two other shots as I got out of the car and tried to get closer. However, she seemed happier with me crawling along in the car beside her.

Of course, the best opportunity would have been one morning when it was absolutely pouring down with rain. I came round the bend known locally as 'the chicane' (all that's left of an old railway bridge - now removed), and as I entered the quartermile 'straight' had to swerve to avoid a male hare bounding along the road. It's all hedges there and very narrow and bendy, so no way I could stop and get a photo. About 200 yards further on, the countryside opens out and there she was, sitting in the grass.

This was one I took earlier in the year of where I saw her, although on the other side of the road!


I probably saw her a dozen times before I managed to get this series - but you also want to get a better shot!

Caz