Interesting Hare experience. Feel free to add yours.

[boyo 1,398]

i to have had them run straight towards the dog on odd occasions always wonder why they do this ,and amazed when it does .

[marshman 7,758]

My father told me once, he was out with his dog when he spotted a hare in the next field. He walked over to where he had seen the hare but it had disappeared . He said he walk around and around but couldn't spot the hare. So he stood still and look down , and right next to his foot was the hare , It ear was on his welly !!

[tilimangro 1,013]

never forget seeing (im certain it was) kenzie squeeking hares into him sat in a landrover on a tv programme as a lad

him n me grandfather are what got me completely in love with this

a fella that shot deer on an estate i worked on had a male sparrowhawk land on the end of his rifle while he was sat in a high chair cammoed up

[Guest bezza]

My lurcher bitch killed a hare pre ban. The hare was squealing like a baby ( i hate that sound-always makes me feel a bit guilty) when another hare sprinted across the field from some 100 yards away and began to circle the the dog and its catch. I could swear it was trying to help out its stricken companion. This lasted for perhaps 45 seconds. Eventually, when the first hare was in its death throes, my bitch noticed the would be rescuer, coursed it but failed to catch.

Also, many years ago I lived in a farm cottage on a famous sporting estate. There had been heavy snow and I went outside to savour the peace of the full moon and the beauty of the landscape with its covering of snow. There was an uncultivated area of land next to the cottage which had become overgrown with grass, and beyond that a hayshed. I noticed some unfamiliar movement both on the uncultivated land and around the hayshed. Eventually I sussed out that the objects were hares which had been driven by desperation into the farmyard and were feasting on the hay and the long grassses which had not been completely covered by the snow. Believe it or not I counted 19 hares within an area roughly 100 yards square.

I remember puting food out for the birds the next day and i counted 13 robins feeding on the one birdtable. They had obviously suspended their territorial squabbles because they were so desperate for food.

[gnipper 6,893]

When I was a kid I came home from school and the cat was staring at summat out the window so I looked outside and there was a hare in the middle of the lawn without a care in the world, when I went out it jumped next doors low wall and through a gap in there side fence which was the end of a garden on the main road, I went round the corner to see if it had come out and there's an old bloke weeding his flower beds so I asked if he'd seen it and as I asked it jumped up out of his rough garden and fecked off up the main road. Found it splattered the next day

[tegater 789]

My father told me once, he was out with his dog when he spotted a hare in the next field. He walked over to where he had seen the hare but it had disappeared . He said he walk around and around but couldn't spot the hare. So he stood still and look down , and right next to his foot was the hare , It ear was on his welly !!

I have also had many a time on the moor, when I have sat down for 10-15 minutes or so, and when I have stood up to walk off, a hare has done one, from right near me.

Amazing animals.

[marshman 7,758]

My father told me another time he was coursing when two hares came running across the field. He waited untill they stopped and then he slipped his old bitch. He said that the hare she was running ran over another hare in it's seat ! Now he's old bitch was an old campaigner and stuck to original hare. She had it tight and went in for the strike when the hare somersaulted over his bitch and was facing the other way and made it to a stone wall jumped on the wall and ran along it over the other side and away !! He still laughs about it now and always ends the tale with " what an athlete !!

[tegater 789]

My father told me another time he was coursing when two hares came running across the field. He waited untill they stopped and then he slipped his old bitch. He said that the hare she was running ran over another hare in it's seat ! Now he's old bitch was an old campaigner and stuck to original hare. She had it tight and went in for the strike when the hare somersaulted over his bitch and was facing the other way and made it to a stone wall jumped on the wall and ran along it over the other side and away !! He still laughs about it now and always ends the tale with " what an athlete !!

Clever animals mate, but then again I've seen foxes do similar!

[Baghdadnights 150]

I've been out shooting laying up in a field when I felt something lay down by my leg. Didn't think much at first as my dog often comes with me and just lays with me but after a few minutes I remembered I'd left the dog at home turned to look and it's was a young leveret sitting there munching away