A Wry Look at the Countryside with Roger Evans ; Last Year I Wrote About Seeing Two or Three Hares Here at Home, Not Having Seen a Hare Here for Many, Many Years.

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Last year I wrote about seeing two or three hares here at home, not having seen a hare here for many, many years.

Last week, doing the same job (cutting thistles and grass that has gone to seed) I was starting to get worried. If they were still about, I thought they would have shown themselves by now. Just as I was trimming the last piece, two half-grown leverets burst from some nettles. There were no adults to be seen but obviously they are still about.

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A Wry Look at the Countryside with Roger Evans ; Last Year I Wrote About Seeing Two or Three Hares Here at Home, Not Having Seen a Hare Here for Many, Many Years.

I know farmers who agonise over wildlife eating their crops. Pheasants can be a real nuisance eating the seeds when you've just sown a crop but you can claim compensation from the shoot concerned.

Rabbits can do serious damage as th...

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