Seasonal bunny: This hare showed insensitivity to mythology by neither laying nor hiding eggs.
A hare’s hair moults.
Our local snowshoe hare (we don’t have rabbits around here) is white in winter and rusty brown in summer.
The transition between white and brown is determined by day length, rather than snow cover, so sometimes there is a mismatch with surroundings that makes a hare vulnerable to predation. Indeed, it can live or die when its coat does, or does not, provide adequate camouflage.
This was the first time I had seen a hare midway in its moult from white to rusty brown.
