A mountain hare tries to outrun the massive golden eagle.

In Summer, for all populations of mountain hares, the coat is various shades of brown.

Mountain hares which are indigenous have now been re-introduced in Derbyshire.

Studies have shown that the diet of the mountain hare varies from region to region.

"Later," the Coyote went on, "they found a deer occasionally and mountain hares.

Fiona took off like a mountain hare.

Most often his quarry was a mere rabbit; but with sufficient luck and intelligence he might take a mountain hare.

Game meat includes mountain hare, rock ptarmigan, willow grouse and moose.

The final choice was a kind of compromise, the mountain hare, which is the front-end of the skvader.

Vaila is home to an organic sheep farm and is also known for its mountain hares.

Finland's native lagomorphs are the European hare and the mountain hare.

Given a choice, mountain hares in Scotland and Ireland seem to prefer feeding on grasses.

"I'll bet my sword the mountain hare wins.

Mountain hares are Britain's only native hare and have been here since the Ice Age.

The mountain hare is a large species, though it is slightly smaller than the European hare.

A wilderness in which an eagle could stretch his wings over ground that red deer, wild cat and blue mountain hare might roam.

It was once considered a subspecies of the Mountain Hare, but it is now regarded as a separate species.

One study looking at mountain hares on a coastal grassland environment in Ireland found that grasses constituted over 90% of the diet.

Andy Howard photographed this mountain hare in the Scottish highlands on his first outing of the winter.

For smaller animals like the mountain hare, the benefits of camouflage against a background of snow no doubt outweigh the disadvantages.

Middle : Mountain hare.

There are numerous species which may be observed in the reserve, namely red deer, mountain hare, kestrels and pine martens.

On the high mountain tops species including ptarmigan, mountain hare and stoat can be seen in their white colour phase during winter months.

Many hunts in Scotland of Mountain Hare involve a somewhat lengthy tail chase.

The common dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) and mountain hare are also under threat despite efforts to arrest their decline through nationwide biodiversity action plans.

Across the lake there was a blue hare against the hills.

How about some blue hare in their full winter coat and ermines of course!

Also Junius had seen his first blue hare, which he called a "jack rabbit."

One featured a blue hare with no caption.

The rabbit, blue hare, hedgehog, brown and black rat, feral cat, Mink and polecat were introduced by man.

Finally he found the parchments covering the Year of the Blue Hare, the two hundred and eighty-seventh of the Gehan era, and pulled them out.

Miyamura is best known for his unique iridescent glazes, including a compelling gold glaze, the "starry night" glaze on a black background, and a blue hare's fur glaze.

Over the years I've been lucky enough to see pine martens, golden eagles, otters, blue hares, foxes and a huge variety of birds, including a snowy egret at Torridon, wildly off course from its African and European haunts.

The mountain hare (Lepus timidus), also known as blue hare, tundra hare, variable hare, white hare, snow hare, alpine hare and Irish hare, is a hare that is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats.

By order of the High Council, meeting in the third session of the second quarter of this, the Year of the Blue Hare, be it known that Hewzane, Lord Torin of Brennis, has been tried in his absence and found guilty of the following capital crimes against the empire.

The Alaskan hare is sometimes referred to as the tundra hare.

The Alaskan hare (Lepus othus), also known as the tundra hare, is a species of mammal in the family Leporidae.

Like a wild tundra hare, felicity had always bolted before she could grasp it, slipping across the bleak background of her life, a mere streak forever in peripheral vision.

The mountain hare (Lepus timidus), also known as blue hare, tundra hare, variable hare, white hare, snow hare, alpine hare and Irish hare, is a hare that is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats.

The mountain hare (Lepus timidus), also known as blue hare, tundra hare, variable hare, white hare, snow hare, alpine hare and Irish hare, is a hare that is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats.

There was the logo of a white hare on the mill chimney.

For a moment she glimpsed a white hare before it sprang away on a new path.

He turned in time to see a white hare dash across the hill chased by an arctic fox.

He saw red deer, black grouse, white hares and ptarmigan.

A large white hare broke cover ahead and raced away past them the way they had come, taking fantastic bounds, seemingly terrified.

White dog, white snow, white hare with a red stain spreading.

Then, the white hare disappeared at Ise ga naru.

Chang'e would gain immortality and forever lived alone on the moon with only white hares accompanying her.

She thought she might go hunting for ptarmigan or white hare later in the afternoon, or perhaps the next morning.

"The White Hare"

The popular traditional folk song, The "Creggan White Hare", is named for this townland.

About two hours' walk, accompanied by the white hare, the Amaterasu group reached a mountain top plain, which is now called Ise ga naru.

The "Creggan White Hare" is an Irish folk song.

So with Pantalaimon as a white hare bounding delicately at her side, she trudged along the line of sledges to where some men were piling brushwood.

Also widespread are boar, roe deer, squirrel, brown and white hare, fox, raccoon, wolf, marten, otter, and mink.

The white hare bit Amaterasu's clothes and took her to an appropriate place for a temporary palace along Nakayama mountain and Reiseki mountain.

Were preserved moose, marten, squirrel, hare- white hare and other were numerous the planktonic and marshy- coastal birds.

Full text of Basil Hall Chamberlain's translation of "The White Hare of Inaba"

In Cornwall, south-western England, it is said that a giant white hare named Looe gambols along the clifftops on evenings when there is a full moon.

When he was hunting in the wild country a white hare appeared; the king gave a chase and the hare suddenly disappeared at [the site of the future stupa].

At the moment, three white ptarmigan, tied together by their feathered feet, hung down her back over the other shoulder, balanced by two good-size white hares down the front.

I heard a scream and a snap, in that order, and turned to find that my dog had taken a white hare fiom the middle of the white, stubbly field.

Ormonte - the queen's confidant, aptly made here into a priestly figure - is robed in yellow and white, and has a white Hare Krishna seal on his forehead.

However, the 'great white hare' is most likely a ruse invented by long-ago Cornish pirates and smugglers who wanted to deter people from walking along the shore on a brightly moonlit night.

The field hare is known as a bad omen around the world, yet to see a black hare is considered good luck - and in Scotland a white hare is even better luck.

Sometimes, looking up, he would see a snow hare listening or catch the startled glance of a white falcon's eyes.

Following them are two snow hares named Seeka and Tuk.

Outside of the several deer, a handful of snow hares, a few scattered birds, he has seen no living creatures.

His dæmon is Hester, an arctic snow hare.

After a series of frozen moments, in which we watch the fox wander through the woods, he finally happens on the trail of a snow hare.

Happy: A Snow hare who lives in Greenland and is one of Tabaluga's best friends.

Now, lying covered in the snow, watching the second rabbit run he had discovered, Nylan could sense the snow hare just below the entrance to the burrow.

An'nai and Prince Jiriki came pelting back along the mountain path, touching as lightly on the powdery surface as snow hares.

The ultimately selected mascots: a polar bear, snow hare, and snowboarding leopard (said to be Vladimir Putin's favorite) found only timid popular support.

"The Goblin and the Snow Hare"(1995) celebrates a generous exchange between a goblin boy and a Japanese girl.

The Safeway International Store range included wild boar steaks, snow hare, suckling pig, and reindeer steaks.

She breathed only through her pinkish nostrils because her jaws were full of two snow hares, packed side by side, with dead heads and hindquarters a-dangle.

When the green tips break the snow, When the cold streams start to flow, When the snow hares turn to black, Sing out to call our love back.

Join in with the walking itineraries organised by the hosted chalets here and you could spot silver foxes, golden eagles and the original snowshoer, the big-footed snow hare.

In Washington, D.C., one such store specializes in foreign foods, offering such delicacies as hippopotamus steak, alligator meat, wild snow hare, and thirty-five different kinds of honey.

After the tea was drunk, they heated more water and left the hacked and disjointed bits of one of the snow hares in the fluid until they turned gray, then slowly chewed them and drank the dull soup.

From behind Fafhrd and the Mouser as they worked came the tantalizing odor of two snow hares roasting by the fire, while before it Hrissa tore flesh slowly and savoringly from the carcass of a third she'd coursed down.

In Romualdova cave between 1961 and 1962, Malez excavated five probes in the cave and found the bones of Pleistocene animals, including the cave bear, cave lion, leopard, cave hyena, wild horse, big deer, snow hare, and others.

The mountain hare (Lepus timidus), also known as blue hare, tundra hare, variable hare, white hare, snow hare, alpine hare and Irish hare, is a hare that is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats.

Replying to these criticisms (which have raised the possibility of an elaborate forgery) in the newspaper El Pais, the Spanish pre-historian Antonio Beltran noted that although he had not previously been aware of depictions of penguins, rare animals such as snow hares and seals were found in cave paintings.

Zerkons, ice bears, deer, snow hares, even the birds who had been spreading the news since dusk, gathered side by side, predator and prey, forgetting their fear or hunger as they witnessed a wild man doing battle with a creature they had never seen before, a creature they knew of only from stories handed down through the ages.

Red and roe deer abounded, and foxes and alpine hares were common, while badgers and wild cats were occasionally trapped.

The mountain hare (Lepus timidus), also known as blue hare, tundra hare, variable hare, white hare, snow hare, alpine hare and Irish hare, is a hare that is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats.

Irish hares are less common but may still be spotted in the fields below the road.

Similarly, some scientists believe that the Irish Hare should be regarded as a separate species.

Animal species living in the area include the Irish hare (a sub-species of the mountain hare), the curlew, and the red grouse.

Hilda (performed by Lesa Gillespie) - An Irish Hare who is best friends with Potto.

Some species, such as, the red fox, hedgehog and badger, are very common, whereas others, like the Irish hare, red deer and pine marten are less so.

Pressures from native grazers like Red Deer and Irish Hare have increased since their main natural predators, the Wolf and Golden Eagle, became extinct.

Non-domestic animals in the Boho area include the Irish Hare, wild goats, foxes, badgers, red squirrels, rats, mice and shrews and the occasional pine martin.

There are six terrestrial mammal species on the island: Brown Rats, Red Foxes, field mice, Irish Hares, hedgehogs and European Rabbits.

- Now Galapagos Tortoises, Mocking birds, Falkland Fox, Chiloe fox, - Inglish and Irish Hare."

The local conifer forests, open heather moors, and grassland are habitats for fauna such as the hen harrier, Irish hare, red fox, red grouse, snipe, cuckoo, and meadow pippit.

The mountain hare (Lepus timidus), also known as blue hare, tundra hare, variable hare, white hare, snow hare, alpine hare and Irish hare, is a hare that is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats.

This tail colour combined with its large size (in comparison to most other populations of mountain hare) and the various shades of brown that the Irish hare may display, could lead an unexperienced observer to misidentify an Irish mountain hare as a European hare.

The first years, some of the Hares developed a white coat in winter, like their ancestors from Norway, but after a few decades, due to the oceanic climate with its lack of snow cover, the Faroese Hares had adopted common traits with the Irish Hares (Lepus timidus hibernicus) staying brown all year.

Mountain Hares (Lepus timidus) have been introduced, and inhabit the mountain area and surrounding valleys.

In Scotland, the most significant prey species are the Mountain Hare (Lepus timidus) and the introduced European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus).

The mountain hare (Lepus timidus), also known as blue hare, tundra hare, variable hare, white hare, snow hare, alpine hare and Irish hare, is a hare that is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats.

The first years, some of the Hares developed a white coat in winter, like their ancestors from Norway, but after a few decades, due to the oceanic climate with its lack of snow cover, the Faroese Hares had adopted common traits with the Irish Hares (Lepus timidus hibernicus) staying brown all year.