Rusakko ruokapöydän ääressä, kasvava vilja on herkkua. – European hare at the dinner table, growing grain is a delicacy.
Rusakko on levinnyt kaakosta Suomeen 1800-luvun loppupuolelta lähtien ja 1900-luvun alussa sitä on istutettu tänne Lounaaseen. Nyt niitä on hyvin runsaasti, josta hyötyvät ilvekset ja sudet, ehkä jänön poikasista myös ketut ja pienpedot. Jänikset osaavat hyvin hyödyntää viljelyksiä ja puutarhoja, ja suosivat näin ihmisasutuksia, kuten kauriitkin. Sitten ne isommat pedotkin siirtyvät meitä lähemmäksi... :-)
(06/2026)
The European hare has spread from the southeast to Finland since the late 19th century, and in the early 20th century it was introduced here in the southwest. Now there are a lot of them, which benefit lynxes and wolves, and perhaps foxes and small carnivores from the hare's young. Hares are good at exploiting crops and gardens, and thus prefer human settlements, as do deer. Following them the bigger carnivores will move closer to us too... :-)

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Peltojänis piilottelee pellolla, korvasta päätellen kovia kokenut. – European hare is hiding in a field, judging by its ears, it has experienced hard times.
(06/2026)

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Birding walk this morning (new hat working well) and I failed to think of getting my camera out for the deer, but here are some hares, a red kite and a fieldfare. None of which are ducks.

#NotADuck #Birding #LowCarbonBirding #RedKite #MilvusMilvus #BrownHare #EuropeanHare #LepusEuropaeus #FieldFare #TurdusPilaris

A late night photo walk yesterday. Mist, a light sprinkling of snow, a few hares, not a lot of people...

I went for a customary Wednesday evening run and then realized I should have gone for a photo walk instead as the weather was a bit unusual: mist and snow at the same time. I got back home at around 9 pm, changed clothes and grabbed my camera.

I ended up walking for a couple of hours in Tali and Munkkivuori until my fingers were frozen enough to call it quits. I am not particularly happy with any of the photos – mostly of empty streets as I saw only a few other people. There were brown hares though...

#brownhare
#lepuseuropaeus
#helsinki
#finland
#tali
#munkkivuori
#november
#fall
#autumn
#photowalk
#nightphotography
Urban Safari for #WildlifeWednesday and #WhiskersWednesday 🐰

Behind #Magdeburg's biggest shopping centre and just outside #UnserLieberFrauen abbey turned art museum, I found these two #hares frolicking in the grass. There's quite a big #hare population in the city, but I've never had the chance to see them so close and take somewhat decent photos. And yes, they are hares, not rabbits!


#Hase #Hasen #Feldhase #Feldhasen #brownHare #EuropeanHare #Lepus #LepusEuropaeus #Tier #Tiere #Tierfotografie #animal #animals #Natur #nature #wildlife #animalPhotography #wildlifePhotography #urbanWildlife