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There was a thud on the window/door to the garden this morning. Usually these thuds are birds trying to fly through the house but this morning it was a hare!
There was a pair of them, male chasing the female running around the garden for about ten minutes. They were about two metres away when I took this.
We're out in the countryside and have had a hare come into the house before now.
Nice! We regularly have roe deer outside the kitchen window at breakfast time. Sadly muntjac as well.
whitestone - How magical.
We get foxes, badgers, wood mice, lots of birds and sadly rats. Which is not too bad living on the edge of a small town.
Very nice. Where in the country are you?
We're near to Skipton.
@Bunnyhop - foxes are primarily an urban creature these days, don't see or hear them much around here. Badgers also are increasingly urban plus you need to be out and about during the hours of darkness to see them and with street lighting you get a better chance.
We'll often see a kestrel hovering level with the bathroom window - it's a bit weird to have an avian peeping tom when you're having a bath! There's a pair of buzzards that nest at the bottom of the field in front of the house and there's a few sparrowhawks around.
For a long time as a child there was a sheet of corrugated steel out side my bedroom window.
One night a couple of roe dear decided to do laps of the house jumping on the sheet every lap
Found a tawny owl sitting on the railings beside my front door it gave me such a dirty look.
@whitestone, that’s a great photo, I can’t begin to express how envious I am that you get hares in your garden! One of my favourite animals, but not common around here, North Wiltshire, Chippenham in fact.
There’s a field just outside of Biddestone, where the Agatha Rasin tv series was filmed, where I’d regularly see hares, I’ve even seen them mating, but in recent years there’s been no sign of them, but Wiltshire has a problem with city types indulging in illegal hare-coursing, and it’s such a big county it’s difficult for the police to keep on top of it, sadly. ☹️
There's hares not far away, CountZero - saw some in the fields last year while walking near Avebury... haven't seen any round Pewsham way though.