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Mountain Hares, Snowdrops and Swifts

Scotland Outdoors

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Dozens of White Streaks Going Uphill?

In theory, a hair should be super easy to spot. We've got patches of snow and then it's brown hair there with yellow sort of dead grass and lovely lichens around as well. And you just saw these white streaks going up the hillside. I mean, not one or two. Dozens of them. Why are here numbers so far down there? Well, I think it's to do with changing seasons. What we're getting now is more wetter milder winters which hairs aren't designed for. So once the pelage or their fur gets wet and the skin gets wet, they find it very difficult to dry themselves in these conditions. Any of the weaker ones will just

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