You Learn Something New Every Day.....

[beast 1,884]

yep, i often put hares up out of the same seat

 

what i would like to know though, j darcy, is can you give me some tips for approaching that close? i would love to be able to get pictures like that

[Hareydave 1,214]

i copped onto that when i was about 9 when i was out with my useless first lurcher

[slip lead 862]

Go for a walk with just your camera it's amazing how close you can get if your steady and don't make eye contact.

[J Darcy 5,871]

Go for a walk with just your camera it's amazing how close you can get if your steady and don't make eye contact.

Post a few of your piccys matey, I'd love to see 'em.........

[jukel123 8,056]

You will find hares using the same spot decade after decade. Maybe not on flat land but in my area they use the same spots to shelter from the wind. Not the same form perhaps but definitely the same wind breaks.

 

One thing I've noticed over the years is that hares hate dirty land, dirty as in having sheep or cattle fouling the land. You are far more likely to find hares on 'clean' land.

 

The strangest experience I've had with hares was when, before the ban, my lurcher caught a hare. The hare was screaming (I hate that). I was trying to dispatch it quickly when I noticed another hare approaching the crying hare at top speed. When it reached us it started to circle us no further than a couple of yards away. It did this for maybe thirty to sixty seconds. Eventually the lurcher caught sight of it and coursed it close but failed to catch. What attracted the hare? Curiosity? Was it trying to lure the dog from the crying hare like some birds fake a broken wing to lead you away from its youngsters?

[TOMO 26,182]

As above,,,there are fields where you get the forms in the same area year after year,,,and like yourself I always thought it was down to wind direction,,, and getting out of the wind,,,very often those forms would be just below the brough you get,,,

[sandymere 8,263]

Oddest thing I’ve seem with hares and forms was an accidental run of a leveret on the stubble, I was walking a sapling long dog when the leveret exited its form, the dog made up the ground ok but had a bit of a job picking up. After a minute or so I could see the hare was starting to struggle, then it did something I had not expected, it ran straight back to its seat and clamped down. The dog over shot but turned and picked out of the form, shame. I imagine the leveret had been using it safely for a while and it being young still had a strong instinct to freeze and under pressure it got flustered. As I said shame as it had the dog twisted in knots and if it had carried on a few yards had an open hedge to use. Never seen in before or since.

Edited April 28, 2014 by sandymere

[KittleRox 2,147]

aye same seats or lies as we call them this way, a smart dog will know where these lies are, cracking pics

[slip lead 862]

That could of been a buck and the one doing the screeming was maybe a doe

 

Before the ban round my way when the hare's are starting to pair up

(some seasons earlier than others, seen very young leverets mid Dec)

you would often put up the buck first, I suppose to take danger away from his doe because a lot of the times as soon as you slipped the dog after a rising hare another would rise very close to the first and be of in the opposite direction.

 

But I think as soon as his got his wicked way he will be of after another doe and risking his life again just for a stag.

 

I'm not saying all hare's act this way just some round my way at certain times of year

[Tiercel 6,986]

The folk lore here was if you rose a hare it would always travel in a big circle and end up where it started from.

 

TC

[J Darcy 5,871]

 

you would often put up the buck first, I suppose to take danger away from his doe because a lot of the times as soon as you slipped the dog after a rising hare another would rise very close to the first and be of in the opposite direction.

 

But I think as soon as his got his wicked way he will be of after another doe and risking his life again just for a stag.

 

 

You can't be serious surely...........

[jukel123 8,056]

Buck hares are fatally attracted to stags, everyone knows that.

 

I think he meant that the two hares I described were 'together' in some way and that the buck hare was attracted to the female's screams in some way. Certainly you can often get two or three hares that bolt within seconds of each other when they are in mating condition.

[TOMO 26,182]

Must admit,,,I have put hares up from mid shag,,,,must be a b*****d that,,,,mid shag,,,and along comes some fella with a big old hound,,,and you have to do one,,,lol

[Tiercel 6,986]

There was one bit of folk lore about a postman and his terrier who would always catch a hare every time they went out. He would walk in to the wind checking seats as he went.When he found an occupied seat he would walk in ever decreasing circles around the hare, till he was close enough for the terrier to make a lunge at the hare. The lore was he was very successful at it.

 

TC

[nothernlite 18,088]

was always led to beleive the buck rises first to take the danger away from the doe when there pairing up