Hare running

This animals stock photo features brown, wildlife, and wild.

Although the words are sometimes used interchangeable to refer to anything that looks like a bunny, rabbits and hares are not the same.

Hare running in the evening Lepus europaeus More at: www.mikerae.com/life-in-the-landscape

Otmoor RSPB Nature Reserve, near Beckley, Oxfordshire (April 2009) For more information on this species of Hare see the following links: Lepus europaeus / IUCN Red List of Threatened Species European Hare / Wikipedia Tv(Shutter Speed) 1/400 Av(Aperture Value) 6.3 Exposure Compensation -2/3 ISO Speed 400

As usual through this year I have spent some time photographing Brown Hares. There are two main reasons for this, one being that they are always great fun to photograph and secondly the hare site is close to home which allows me to pop in to undertake short evening sessions. The photographs in this post have mostly been taken in the evening when the light has been low, as you can tell by the size of the hares' pupils in some of the images, and on these occasions the superb high ISO…

"Just let your heart lead and your feet will follow, and we'll bound and leap like a gentle breeze. Bound and leap like a zephyr set free. ...

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After a long cold spring Summer arrived and the long bright evening s has made the Brown hares easy to watch. There are many leverets and younger hares around , they spend a lot of time interacting and chasing each other.