I know a little as DT kindly said...I'm a bit of a hare fan. They live above ground and do move about a lot although they favour certain places if the feeding is good and for mating. They are really hard to spot when there isn't snow as they get low down in their scrapes if disturbed and won't run away until the last minute so you don't see them until ou are almost upon them. I often go and watch them in a field about dusk time. They eat all sorts of plant material and will eat tree bark if it is snowy and they can't get to the grass etc. They will be starting to mate around now until March and so that might be why you saw them in a place you don't usually see them.