Peak District Retreat Blog
A blog to share some items of interest about the Retreat and its environment - wildlife or other nature notes and images, or maybe something else. Our barn own nest box has three cameras so barn owls will certainly feature in our blog, but so will other birds and other wildlife.
We do not commit to regular updates, rather we intend to post items of particular interest when they arise. We do have quite a back catalogue of past images which we may post to ‘back-fill’ the blog, while generally keeping the entries in chronological order.
Brown hare explores a land-drain pipe
We often see the brown hares exploring a 12 inch land drain which passes under our track.
Sometimes they exit the other end, circle around overground, and go through the pipe again, seemingly just playing! Sometimes, as on the attached video, they exit the far end, turn around, and come back to where they entered. And sometimes they back out, seemingly unable to turn around inside the pipe.
Their interest in the pipe is not too surprising as it is sometimes used as a den by other wildlife such as stoat, weasel, and mice.
