Caistor St Edmund,Norfolk Boxing hares were once thought to be males competing for females, but it is normally a female defending herself from an amorous maleIt’s early, or the sun has only just risen,yet already I can hear the drone of the bypass a few miles absent as the rush hour traffic picks up. Every allotment of me is alert and awake. I can’t afford to lose focus for a moment for the horse I am on is fresh and quivering with energy.
Choosing our way carefully across the tussocky meadow I allow him to pick up into a trot. I breathe in the morning air and then, less than a metre from us, and a rich brown,almost reddish, shape breaks for cover. We had all but stumbled on a resting brown hare (Lepus europaeus), and crouched low and nearly invisible in its form. It darts off,strong back legs propelling it up the gentle slope.
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Source: theguardian.com