Leverets
3 days ago
The good thing about walking a pointer is that you find all sorts of stuff that normally you’d miss. It’s a good reason for carrying a camera all the time and now I have the iPhone I do like to take that with me – it’s a lot smaller than my SLR.
However, because of the miserable weather we’re having, I didn’t take either today. Though the Pentax SLR is water-proofed to a certain extent, I still couldn’t be bothered today, so missed out on snapping three leverets crouching next to a form in the long grass.
There were two adult Hare nearby, so I guess one was the doe (the jack has no part in rearing his offspring) but I was surprised to find three leverets in one place, as the doe having given birth, will then move the young to separate forms within her muese, but they were still very young.
Indications of how bad the weather has been, are that the Ebor Festival at York racecourse and our local agricultural show were cancelled this year – Gargrave Show has only been cancelled twice before in it’s entire history and that was twice during the 2nd world war, but not because of the weather.
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