Actually, after watching these hopping about on the grass next to our cottage on Islay, almost every evening for three weeks, Grasshopper would be quite appropriate.
Quite often there were two hares close together so we guessed they were siblings and quite young. A few times they explored the yard in front of the cottage an seemed particularly taken by our car and went underneath it and sniffing around the wheels,
They look quite cute when they adopt the 'tea-cosy' pose and hunker down to concentrate on eating, with their legs hidden underneath them, but my goodness when something startles them and they go up on tip-toe you realise how huge their back legs are and when they run they are blindingly fast.
Beautiful animals.
Lee