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Taraxacum
28-Aug-09, 20:04
Hares seem to be very scarce these days. Have we any left in Caithness? I have not seen one this year. They are most visible in the Spring early mornings, but I have not even seen any then. Has anyone any news of them?

Saveman
28-Aug-09, 20:51
Last hares I saw in Caithness was two of them near north Watten about 3 years ago :(

kia
28-Aug-09, 22:19
Hi seen a Hare tearing up a field at Forss about a month ago first one i have seen for years but not seen it since

unicorn
28-Aug-09, 22:23
I wouldn't be too specific in areas in case anyone is looking to course them, illegal I know but I am told it still goes on which could explain the lack of numbers.

teenybash
28-Aug-09, 23:47
Yesterday around lunchtime, having a cuppa while looking out the glass door, I was delighted at watching a young hare meandering over the grass. Not fully grown but not a baby either.........He/she ate some flaked barley that was for the hens before turning and going back over the field.:)

buggyracer
28-Aug-09, 23:55
there are a few about, great to see, but yes they are scarce, modern farming and loss of habitat i fear has put paid to a lot of them :~(

unicorn
29-Aug-09, 00:01
I was at a rabbit show in Dunbar last weekend and I was talking to a lot of English fanciers and we got into just this subject and they thought we would have loads and were amazed when I said no. They were saying farmers in their areas are being paid to encourage hares onto their land and keep them safe there. Maybe that needs promoting in our area.

shazzap
29-Aug-09, 00:50
I don't know if they were hares or rabbits i saw in the hospital grounds.

unicorn
29-Aug-09, 00:56
A hare is far larger and more muscular than a rabbit, big hind legs and larger ears.

shazzap
29-Aug-09, 01:01
A hare is far larger and more muscular than a rabbit, big hind legs and larger ears.

I know they have larger ears, but i would have to see them side by side to know which was which.

The hares/rabbits i saw in Wick hospital grounds last week looked like babies.

highlander
29-Aug-09, 08:10
I know they have larger ears, but i would have to see them side by side to know which was which.

The hares/rabbits i saw in Wick hospital grounds last week looked like babies.

It was rabbits you saw, many times when i was in hospital i would go through to the tv room turn off the lights and loved to watch them feeding on the grass outside.

gleeber
29-Aug-09, 12:12
http://www.orcca.on.ca/~elena/useful/bunnies.html

Did you know there was no evolutionary connection between rabbits and hares? They are different species.

unicorn
29-Aug-09, 12:21
They certainly are they don't even have the same gestation for their babies. A lot of people think a belgian or continental hare are hares as a few breeders have had calls from people wanting to breed them to release into the wild but they are rabbits not hares.

chaz
29-Aug-09, 13:37
There are some up near us:)

Kevin Milkins
29-Aug-09, 22:51
There are more hares about in Caithness than you would imagine, but as Unicorn said it is not wise to be specific.

Dog-eared
11-Sep-09, 16:28
I wouldn't post up the locations of hares.
The very people who coursed them to near extinction would be very interested in their whereabouts......

And yes, I know coursing is "supposed " to be illegal now !

lynne duncan
12-Sep-09, 08:50
going o get in trouble here, but hare is my favourite meat, haven't had some in about 15 years but it has the most gorgeous flavour.

Kevin Milkins
12-Sep-09, 10:17
going o get in trouble here, but hare is my favourite meat, haven't had some in about 15 years but it has the most gorgeous flavour.

Hare adds a full flavour to a game pie, but I find them a big strong.

I remember a recipe in an old Mrs Beeton Cook Book for juged hare and it started with, first catch the hare. :lol:

Dog-eared
12-Sep-09, 10:42
Hare soup......yum yum !

unicorn
12-Sep-09, 12:00
Absolutely agree beautiful flavour. I have no problem with eating animals that have been killed for the pot but coursing then for "fun" and dumping them in a ditch is absolutely disgusting.