The sky was almost cloud-free though there was some cirrus cloud and contrails high in the sky.
Three views northwest and east from along the disused railway line.
There are two new-born lambs in an adjacent field. I spotted one yesterday so I think maybe another was born since then. I watched a Buzzard fly close to the mum and her new offspring, perhaps it was looking for afterbirth to eat. There was a large flock of Fieldfares, Redwings and Starlings feeding in the same field as the sheep - when the ground is frozen, as it was today, these species seem to choose fields in which livestock have the disturbed turf and soil with their hooves. I think it helps them find their invertebrate prey more easily.
A Badger must have been out collecting bedding from a patch of fine-leaved grassy tussocks alongside the railway tracks. You have to wonder why it didn't take it back to its sett? Maybe it was disturbed by a night prowling fox or an early human walker? I have to keep an eye out for the sett as I doubt it is one further along the railway line at Denford as I doubt if a Badger would drag the bedding 3km to that sett.
There were some icicles......
...and icy branches.
Plus a red crusty growth on the north side of oak tree trunks in Deep Hayes Country Park.I am not sure if it is algae, lichen or some other form of biofilm.
I admired a view of Shutlingsloe as I walked back through Stanley.
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