Mountain hares are herbivores and are associated in Derbyshire with the gritstone moors. They are distinctively white or mottled white between November and
April and stand out well amongst the surrounding vegetation, when it is not snowy.
Like brown hares, they have shallow depressions in long grass/crops known as forms.
Being herbivores mountain hares produce lots of droppings.
They are yellow-brown or green in colour and are 'cough-sweet' shaped small and circular with a flattened top. They are larger than rabbit droppings and are 15-20mm in diameter.
The course vegetation material eaten is clearly seen.