Peak District Retreat Blog: Wildlife and general news about the Retreat and its environment

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.