A very big Barn Owl took a rat off the road right in front of me as i cycled home tonight!
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My island is very nice
Over the last few days I've seen loads of hares up on Scout Hill. It's great to see the way they move and the speed they can reach over the snow.
I was wondering whether they are always there, but well camouflaged so I never notice them, or whether they move to places where they can feed when the weather's bad like this?
Anybody know about hares?
“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
Geoff Cox Lonsdale Fellrunners
I had a close encounter of the hare kind recently. I was about one mile north of Grinah Stones on NYE with Plumbum & a group of others ploughing through deep snow and heading for Ronksley Moor shooting cabins for a left over lunch. When a Mountain Hare burst out of a hole in the snow at my feet and set off up towards Barrow Stones. This was followed by a hare which was startled by Peter who wisely used skis to make the journey.
The ammount of over wintering Grouse on Howden moors suggests bad shots this summer and autumn or the recession cutting down the number of corporate guns.
Short-eared owl, fairly close to home