Two snapshots from a walk at the weekend taken within a few meters of each other, hunter (possibly a Harrier of some kind?) and it's prey, a European Brown Hare which ran right up to us (downwind on a windy day). Luckily for the Hare it ran the opposite direction to the bird when it finally spotted me and demonstrated its 40mph speed across a field.
Useless fact of the day: Hares are the only mammal to have kinetic skulls, where the bones of the skull move relative to each other.
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