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Folks whom have been here a while will know I adore this species I have spent a while with 'em trying to steal a soul.it fascinates me that what is amongst the fastest of UK (hmm probably the fastest) land mammal in bliighty will come to see us and spend time with us, if we as image makers play our cards right. those cards are NOT full of mysticism like the brown hare is in our folklore....... it's just low and slow no hides just sloath and time.
This is beguiling to me it stands the hairs on me neck up. If ya can do that with a hare then one can take that to a deer or a boar or a..................
I'm conflicted......see i love 'em and folks country gents shoot 'em and as hard as that is for me I've always felt those estates will provide a dense population a strong hold,which one day might be the founding blood , if ya like, for new populations. As long as the landowner values 'em
Look brown hare is not native we should only have one largomorph here "largo"= wabbit family and that is L timidus IE .mountain hare. We shouldn't have brown hares or rabbits,but we do and especially europeas is steeped in our folklore.they have been here a while it's fair to say.
Loss of habitat etc ( hmm ain't that the way of all of our wiildlife the Uk is after all one of the most denuded ecosystems on the planet) has knocked numbers back by 80% and countiing so those shoots those places where brown hare do well have long seemed to me to be of huge importance. Those spots are so often cared for by a game keeper and a landowner whom shoots...........
I make hare piccies largely at one place..sure in this case although it's a shoot,they don't shoot hares,but sure as houses the game side,the niche habitats the predator control allows hares to thrive in numbers one rarely sees today.
Soz this is long winded i'm getting there, I'm trying to outline some of the stuff that clouds my point of view.
Hare coursing used to be a guy and a dog a pot hunter. those days are largely gone................now it's a whole other......................modern tech has led to interweb gambling ( huge money) 4 wheel drives giiviing access............... hare coursing the money the carnage has become a whole epic other.
Landowners have their land fences and worse staff trashed...... and this is where my big fear of several years comes into play and we lead back to my title.
My fear is simple.it's this................................ will there come a time when a landowner simply faces so much grief that he simple says we can't have hares here any more !!
So they are simply shot on sight.
See ,if, in some way they,the hares are valued, then there is always hope that populations might recover, yeah sure I get the harsh side " valued for shooting" won't sit well with many here I of all understand that, by the same token I guess I'm pragmatic they are still here,to seed new populations...I'd rather that than nowt.
The reason for this post now...well it's simple really.we got out this weekend and I met a mate..he's forgotten more about birds than I'll ever know or learn magical guy to talk too....................and point bank he told me the words I never wanted to hear
"The trouble is stu it's become so bad they are now shoot on sight ,it's just too much hassle to have hares on the land"
DREAD.....yes I know there is habitat loss I know there is possibly a form of hare myximotosis (sp?) it's that big piccy that haunts me.
See to some extent habitat loss can be rectified there is hope( sure we are on a rocky cliff face across the board with nature look at the recent WWF figures) but there is hope..........................to some extent immunity from disease can be found.there is hope always hope
But if the dense populations go IE that foundation stock with just about a wide enough gene pool to survive said threats
where does that leave me fuffy big eared mates?
Hard writing this one,few will really understand what this species mean to me,lol I guess I should be able to say look back through me flickr and the images will show ya but they won't an inckling maybe but not the truth
Soz so so long ,me humbles I don't know the short way to write stuff always got to waffle hey ho
take care
stu
This is beguiling to me it stands the hairs on me neck up. If ya can do that with a hare then one can take that to a deer or a boar or a..................
I'm conflicted......see i love 'em and folks country gents shoot 'em and as hard as that is for me I've always felt those estates will provide a dense population a strong hold,which one day might be the founding blood , if ya like, for new populations. As long as the landowner values 'em
Look brown hare is not native we should only have one largomorph here "largo"= wabbit family and that is L timidus IE .mountain hare. We shouldn't have brown hares or rabbits,but we do and especially europeas is steeped in our folklore.they have been here a while it's fair to say.
Loss of habitat etc ( hmm ain't that the way of all of our wiildlife the Uk is after all one of the most denuded ecosystems on the planet) has knocked numbers back by 80% and countiing so those shoots those places where brown hare do well have long seemed to me to be of huge importance. Those spots are so often cared for by a game keeper and a landowner whom shoots...........
I make hare piccies largely at one place..sure in this case although it's a shoot,they don't shoot hares,but sure as houses the game side,the niche habitats the predator control allows hares to thrive in numbers one rarely sees today.
Soz this is long winded i'm getting there, I'm trying to outline some of the stuff that clouds my point of view.
Hare coursing used to be a guy and a dog a pot hunter. those days are largely gone................now it's a whole other......................modern tech has led to interweb gambling ( huge money) 4 wheel drives giiviing access............... hare coursing the money the carnage has become a whole epic other.
Landowners have their land fences and worse staff trashed...... and this is where my big fear of several years comes into play and we lead back to my title.
My fear is simple.it's this................................ will there come a time when a landowner simply faces so much grief that he simple says we can't have hares here any more !!
So they are simply shot on sight.
See ,if, in some way they,the hares are valued, then there is always hope that populations might recover, yeah sure I get the harsh side " valued for shooting" won't sit well with many here I of all understand that, by the same token I guess I'm pragmatic they are still here,to seed new populations...I'd rather that than nowt.
The reason for this post now...well it's simple really.we got out this weekend and I met a mate..he's forgotten more about birds than I'll ever know or learn magical guy to talk too....................and point bank he told me the words I never wanted to hear
"The trouble is stu it's become so bad they are now shoot on sight ,it's just too much hassle to have hares on the land"
DREAD.....yes I know there is habitat loss I know there is possibly a form of hare myximotosis (sp?) it's that big piccy that haunts me.
See to some extent habitat loss can be rectified there is hope( sure we are on a rocky cliff face across the board with nature look at the recent WWF figures) but there is hope..........................to some extent immunity from disease can be found.there is hope always hope
But if the dense populations go IE that foundation stock with just about a wide enough gene pool to survive said threats
where does that leave me fuffy big eared mates?
Hard writing this one,few will really understand what this species mean to me,lol I guess I should be able to say look back through me flickr and the images will show ya but they won't an inckling maybe but not the truth
Soz so so long ,me humbles I don't know the short way to write stuff always got to waffle hey ho
take care
stu
