Frost fits the land like a glove

14^th January

This once-wetland of the Fens is quick still with wildlife and bright today with frost. By the train’s track the delicate tracery of birch and the drooping grandeur of ash are heavy with hoar. To the east, a long low ledge of cloud is lit by the coming sun.

In the fields a fine-footed company of roe and in the almost-light of the sky above them an effortless buoyancy of rooks. A foxtrot fox and a tumble of hares are here too. This list grows and today is to the mammals.

This train is for London King’s Cross via Ely and Cambridge.

	Mammals
7	brown hare	Lepus capensis
8	roe deer	Capreolus capreolus
9	red fox	Vulpes vulpes
	Birds
84	tufted duck	Aythya fuligula
85	grey heron	Ardea cinerea
86	fieldfare	Turdus pilaris
87	redwing	Turdus iliacus
88	pochard	Aythya ferina

Totals

Mammals: 9

Birds: 88

Reptiles: 0

Amphibians: 0

Fish: 0