Join the Mad March Hares at Wirral Country Park this Saturday

Mar 2 2011 by Jade Wright, Birkenhead News

AS MARCH begins this week, the lengthening daylight allows us a glimpse of one of the country’s most magical wildlife spectacles – boxing hares.

The annual Mad March Hares event, at Wirral Country Park this Saturday, will once again set off across the farmland of west Wirral to seek out boxing brown hares.

Wrap up warm and bring your binoculars for your ringside seat.

These normally languid and timid herbivores transform into bullying bruisers as they fight it out among the cowslips.

To witness a joust on a fresh, spring dawn is a startling and dramatic experience.

March and April offer one of the best opportunities of catching up with these shrunken bar-room brawlers in action.

The free session runs from 6.30-9.30am. Booking essential on 0151 648 4371.