Best places to see hares

Top UK sites to spot hares

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Jo Price

Published: March 11, 2014 at 5:02 pm

Early spring is usually the best time to see brown hares, because this is when their breeding season gets underway.

If you're lucky you may even spot them boxing, though you may need several visits to be sure of seeing this spectacle!

ENGLAND

Buckenham Marshes, Norfolk

WWT Welney, Norfolk

King's Forest, Suffolk

RSPB Havergate Island, Suffolk

Willow Tree Fen, Lincolnshire

The South Downs Way

RSPB Saltholme, Cleveland

RSPB Otmoor, Oxfordshire

Buscott and Coleshill National Trust estates, Oxfordshire

Bleasdale and Lower Fair Snape, Forest of Bowland, Lancashire

Chesil Beach, Dorset

Wimpole, Cambridgeshire

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Brown hare © David Tipling

WALES

Anglesey, North Wales

Dolydd Hafren, Montgomeryshire, Wales

SCOTLAND

WWT Caerlaverock, Dumfries & Galloway

RSPB Loch Gruinart, Isle of Islay, Scotland

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Deputy editor, BBC Wildlife Magazine

Jo Price is the deputy editor of BBC Wildlife Magazine. She trained as a journalist at Cardiff University and has been a member of the BBC Wildlife team for nine years, working in various roles. Jo commissions exciting natural history content and interviews experts for the magazine’s Wild Times section and discoverwildlife.com. She enjoys wildlife gardening to support an array of species, including a few hedgehogs: creating a hedgehog highway has resulted in the prickly mammals visiting her suburban garden to forage and hibernate. Jo spends her weekends exploring local nature reserves, Magor Marsh and RSPB Newport Wetlands, and going on countryside walks and bike rides with her family.

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