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Brown & Mountain
Hare Paintings
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Here
are a selection of my pictures and paintings of hares. There are two species
found in Britain.
I have studied in the wild and then painted both the brown hare Lepus
europaeus and the mountain hare Lepus timidus. |
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A recently vacated brown hare form
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HARE
SAFETY |
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There are many different strategies which animals adopt to cope with danger
the powerful legs of hares give a clue as to theirs.
Most animals hide away in cover for
protection but hares rely on seeing any danger coming, with eyes placed
high on their heads hares have exceptional all round vision and if a predator
approaches their speed will prevail and carry them to safety.
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Brown hares are predominantly
active during the hours of darkness, during the day they rest up in a
shallow scrape in the ground called a form. Surprisingly the hare sits
right out in the open and is only partly concealed.
The fact that hares sit out in the open
makes studying them much easier I can bring a distant dot in a field
into sharp focus through my telescope.
View more
Hare
Pictures including paintings for sale |
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Skipping
Hare
Oils, 9 x 16 inches
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All images
©
No reproductions permitted without written consent. |
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Sunbathing Brown
Hares
Oils, 18 x 24 inches |
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Hares, Lapwings
and Grey Plovers
Oils, 20 x 30 inches |
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Gamboling Hares
Watercolours, 16 x 23 inches |
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Running Brown
Hares
Oils, 12 x 23 inches |
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Ridley, 29 Toberargan Road, Pitlochry
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UK 07925 549 002
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