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Secondly. Several times he hopped towards
me, only 2 to 3 feet away. Almost all our observing
was at 6 to 12 feet distance. He completely
ignored labours screaming and from oral scratching
(and our conversations). He could be identified by
a small pole effect on his right side/shoulder.
Once he squatted fleetingly as he crossed a bare patch.
I did not see him separate at any time. At 11:55
he crossed diagonally the open turf area, took only
a few minutes but never ran continuously more
than maybe 50 yards. At 12:22 he left the
cattered brush/grass/scrub and headed leisurely
out into the open turf. At 12:25 he picked
up in his teeth what looked like a piece of bone
about 10 x 60 mm, and ran directly with it to a
solitary hole in the turf and went down the hole with
the bone. This was the only thing he did in 2 1/2 hours.
It could not be classified under "snoop and mill".
He never seemed to take advantage of shelter, no
dashing furiously from bush to bush, no freezing
timorously in response to noises.
In the morning we looked around the hole into
which he disappeared - a typical simple round R hole
with few (or no?) R droppings. Within 2 or 3 yards
we found a white hair dropping of hare hair, a few pieces
of old weathered branches of poplar/white birch, and a few
fragments of sheep or hare bone. He could have picked