Where we live (Vale of York) we see more hares than rabbits in the fields. The odd thing about them is they don;t hop, but walk (or run!) One of the weirdest things I ever saw was a couple of years back, at night but it was a full moon so very light... I looked out of the bedroom window, and saw a hare just strolling casually down the centre of the lane, outside the house. It looked for all the world like a person going for a little midnight walk... It made me realise why there are all those old folktales about witches turning into hares, etc. There is something very human about them...
Hares are our native animal, the rabbits an import, too!
In March you really do see the hares boxing, out in the fields.