The broadcaster, naturalist and tour guide shares the most breathtaking seasonal events in Britain
TO THOSE WITH A NATURAL HISTORY bent, the month of March is synonymous with one spectacle above any other – that of brown hares duking it out. Celebrated throughout the ages, it was undoubtedly this very behaviour that inspired Lewis Carroll’s March Hare character in Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland.
Despite the brown hare being easily the more familiar of our two hare species, it is only the lesser-known mountain hare that is in fact native to Britain. Originally emanating from the grassy plains of Asia, brown hares are believedmountains and moorlands – niches that may well have already been filled by the brown hare’s montane cousin.
