Hares and rabbits associating together?

baaba maal

I'm lucky enough to have a small number of hares regularly in my garden (I'm surrounded by bog, rough ground and forestry). A great sight watching them feeding etc. However, there are two hares currently around (I think they are twins as they have been together since they were leverets earlier in the year). What is odd is that they have been accompanied for the last two weeks by first two, and now one, young rabbits (kits). By this I mean they all graze together, and one of the kits even goes up to the hares and smells them/nuzzles them. I would see them on a daily basis. I am 100% sure that I am looking at what I am describing (i.e. not just hares with leverets).

Is this a common phenomenon or a bit odd?

baaba maal

Anybody?

Bonedigger

It's quite a common occurrence on the Curragh.You will see both grazing within close proximity to each other.I've never seen a rabbit get so close as to smell/nuzzle a hare though.

baaba maal

That's really the point- I really wasn't sure of what I was seeing but it was definitely just that. I suppose it's just another of nature's mysteries etc.

Hope the rabbits aren't doing too much burrowing around the barrows on the Curragh:)

Bonedigger

baaba maal wrote: »

That's really the point- I really wasn't sure of what I was seeing but it was definitely just that. I suppose it's just another of nature's mysteries etc.

Hope the rabbits aren't doing too much burrowing around the barrows on the Curragh

It's not the rabbits I'm worried about,but those damn metal detectorists!
Two of the barrows were 'night-hawked' last year.:mad:

baaba maal

Feck- sorry, for some reason I thought the Curragh would have been safe enough from that lot but obviously not:( I was just about to highlight the new leaflet from the dept on the archaeology forum.

Thread hijack by OP over.