Tuesday 8 May 2018

The Right Place at the Right Moment

We often see hares passing through the garden but rarely do I see one sitting still AND, even better, I had the camera to hand without having to walk past the window to get it.

He/she was busy having a wash and brush up




They aren't as clear and sharp as they ought to be,  because the inside of the kitchen window needs cleaning................ I keep putting it off as it's a very deep window sill and cleaning the window involves climbing onto the sink unit!
 Must do it today.

Back Tomorrow
Sue



42 comments:

  1. Wow - how fortunate is that! They can be so hard to catch and snap. Lovely photos!
    J x

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  2. So lucky to get a close up photo like that!..Oh,and the windows look fine to me....sit in the sun and leave them for another day!xx

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  3. What a privilege to see a hare so close up and so still.
    Moments like that are such an encouragement especially when you have a chance to capture them.
    We have a heron that appears regularly and my OH spends ages stalking it camera in hand.
    Just as he's in position, with a lazy flap of its wings, the heron moves.
    He then feels guilty because he's disturbed it! Sue

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  4. We have hares living all around the farm house in the hedgerows but they never come into the garden. We do have night time visitors as we can see how they come under the fence but not sure what they are that are visiting hopefully hedgehogs.

    Mitzi

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  5. How lovely to see and capture on camera. Was this on zoom?

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    1. Yes, zooming in - it was sitting about 15 metres away from the kitchen - roughly

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  6. Love to see hares dashing around the fields.

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  7. I like the one where she is staring straight back at the camera. It looks so distinctively like a hare which of course it is.

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  8. I always gorget how big hares are. You did really well to manage so many photos without spooking the hare.

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  9. Very fortuitous. I used to see hares regularly when I lived in the Salisbury area. We used to see them in the Park field when we first moved here, just up the lane, but sadly they must all be gone now. Great photos!

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  10. Excellent photos, we don't have any close to home, we tend to spot them out walking so they are often across the fields and a bit far for a good image

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  11. What an amazing set of photos. love this so much!

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  12. Fabulous photos. How fortunate that you had your camera to hand.

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  13. You can see just how powerful those rear muscles are, beautiful animals.

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  14. The best photos! How wonderful. Love hares, usually I only see them bounding across a field. After you have cleaned your windows can you pop up to Norfolk and do mine!!

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  15. I haven't seen a hare for ages. Rabbits here but soon the myxomatosis will hit

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    1. The farmland of East Anglia is good hare territory John.

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  16. Aren't they fun to see? Caught one hopping away the other day but no camera handy. There was actually a turkey in the garden last week but I was still unsteady on my feet and the photo came out too blurry. Never a camera when you need one!

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  17. For more than six months, I had a rabbit (or as I call it, "bunny") stop by my patio every evening. Yes, I left food for it. Once in awhile there would be two bunnies and I got a photo of them "kissing" or at least it looked like that. I love the wildlife.

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  18. A real beauty! There are hares around here but I never see one as close as that.

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  19. Great photos! Lovely to see and how lucky to have a camera to hand.

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  20. That hare looks huge! We have a squirrel that keeps coming into the garden. I'm not keen on them and it's not helping itself as it keeps digging in one of my pots. Hope you and Col had a lovely Bank Holiday. xx

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  21. A wonderful gift from Nature! I bet your heart was beating fast with delight.

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    1. ps I meant to say before, well done on those viewing figures and followers!

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  22. Such a fine looking animal.

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  23. Lovely photos, can I do a painting from one? We have lots of hares round us. I only see them when they are miles away!

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    1. Paint as many as you like!
      I was astonished to see this sitting still beside the drive, and thought it would go when I went passed the window to get my camera then realised the camera was right behind me on the kitchen worktop...Lucky.

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  24. Thank you for those Sue. My all time favourite animal and such a set of fine pictures.

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  25. I could have had a brilliant shot if I'd been a bit quicker. I came back from the polytunnel to find one of the chickens sat on the Aga. Luckily the mats were on the lids. But she saw me coming in and flew down. Talk about 'oven ready chicken'!!

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  26. Last year I was sitting at a bench in a woodland with my top dog & a hare ran past us & stopped right in front of us & looked at me straight in the eyes.It was magical x

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  27. I don't know how I'd cope if I had hares so near to home! Fabulous photographs, well done.

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  28. Gorgeous. I usually only see hares dashing off through some countryside when I've disturbed them when hiking! At least they don't make me jump as much as the pheasants do!

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  29. Fabulous...one of my absolute favourites.
    Arilx

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  30. Love your photographs! Wow! We don't see hares here, just small rabbits once in awhile.

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  31. Beautiful photos. Well done!

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  32. Amazing photos. Well done.

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  33. Love the pictures. We have lots of jackrabbits here. I took a picture of four of them playing on my front lawn the other day and posted it on my blog. Unfortunately I took it with my phone, through the window, so it isn't the greatest picture. We have them year round, snow white in the winter and then they turn brown in the spring.

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  34. I never seem to have my camera handy when things get exciting outside. I always have to search and once found the excitement has usually disappeared.

    Very nice photos of the hare.

    God bless.

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