Hedgerow Lite 
leaves a print behind which we can read 
if up betimes, before the wind has swept 
away the loose, feathery particles, or the 
sudden thaw and drip from overhead 
branches have destroyed all trace of the 
track. The birdsthat hop, like blackbirds 
and thrushes, leave quite a different track 
from that of the starlings, which: run. 
The partridges and pheasants which have 
passed can be distinguished by the size 
of the footprints as well as the shape. 
You may perhaps see a mark—a four- 
toed footprint of some bird, but one with 
very long toes ; and you wonder what it 
can be. That is where a moorhen has 
walked along, leaving the track of its 
long green toes. The pond near by is 
frozen up ; and so the moorhens have to 
take to the ditches, and hunt up and 
down them for food wherever they can 
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