A dawn ramble for rabbits
Jul 22, 2020
4 minutes
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CALLUM MCINERNEY-RILEY
Mark Twain is said to have declared that “reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”, when told that his obituary had appeared in the papers while he was still alive. I recalled this famous quote recently following a first-rate dawn adventure chasing the supposedly doomed rabbit.
“I hadn’t reckoned on the number of rabbits we’d encounter along the hedgerows”
At the height of summer there is nothing more glorious than a hedgerow ramble in the first light of dawn. So we set out in the darkness, the sun-bleached and weary grass shining after an overnight storm, the gloom lifting slowly in an overcast sky.
A roebuck hidden deep inside the woods barked out his rasping call in response to the high-pitched piping of
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