Turvey Nature Reserve is near Donabate in North Dublin. It is a lovely reserve with a variety of parkland, farmland and wetlands giving a wide variety of wildlife encounters on a walk. I was walking along a pathway and I notice something in a field. I couldn't make out what it was so I used my zoom lens on the camera to get a close up view. I thought it might be a mound of grass or a rock, but when I looked in the view finder I saw a hare. I was delighted as I didn't have a photograph of a hare, wild rabbits yes but not a hare. I took a short sequence of photos. My mirrorless camera was set to mechanical shutter so there is a slight sound when you press the shutter, not the machine gun affect on a dslr but still a sound which the hare picked up on. As you can see from the shot below it took off fairly promptly and at speed.
I used a shutter speed of 1/4000 of a second in the first shot. This was not a conscious choice, I had it set on 1/4000 sec. as I had been previously trying to get a photo of a sand martin flying. The aperture was the usual open aperture of f8 as I had the exender. ISO was 2000.
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