2026-04-14 17:30 UTC
As the snow thins out on the higher slopes the Mountain Hares can get back up and have a bite to eat. Their summer coats are starting to appear just in time too. Yesterday near the summit of Creag Leacach #Cairngorms #Scotland
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@cwicseolfor@zeroes.ca 2026-04-15 16:16
@jimfrost Do their heads always go brown earlier than the rest of their bodies? It would make sense, if so, as their heads are the part of them they’re most likely to position on patches of exposed grasses during this phase of the melt. (I’m in the temperate to subtropical latitudes so no animals here have different winter pigmentation, if anything at all they just get fluffier.)