Shatterford - 30th December

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After the storms last night I didn't think it was worth getting out early today, but when I woke up at 9am this morning it was blue sky & sunshine. 
I started off from Shatterford at 11am & the wind had already started to pick up again & clouds were on the horizon.
As it was windy there wasn't much out over the heath, just a couple of Pied Wagtails, Crows & a Wren giving its alarm.  Down to Woodfidley & in the cover of some Silver Birch near Denny Lodge Inclosure were Long-tailed, Blue & Great Tits & a couple of Goldcrest.
Into Denny Lodge Inclosure, where it was more sheltered from the winds, were all the tits again, a few Nuthatch, Lesser Spotted & Green Woodpeckers calling, Robins & Song Thrush singing, Chaffinches, Siskins, Redwings & a couple of flocks of Crossbills went over with one male trying to sing in mid-flight.
In the more sheltered places in the Inclosure were quite a few Hedgehog fungi left, along with the leaves of last years Wood Sage.  The part of the Inclosure I walk through is made more interesting in the winter by some Lawson's Cypress & Redwoods that have been planted & are getting mature.
Back out of Denny Lodge Inclosure & walking parallel with the fence-line some, Jays were calling & a male & female Crossbills were perched on top of a Larch, with the red male at the very top & the greenish female working the cones a few branches beneath him.  On a big fallen Beech trunk by the fence were the brackets of the fungus Pseudotrametes gibbosa & on a living Oak the other side of the track was the rare Ganoderma resinaceum or 'Lacuered Bracket'.
On the grass track next to the heath going towards Denny Wood there wasn't any bird life due to the wind but there was the tiny Fairy Club Clavulinopsis helvola & on an old stump near the wood was some Sulphur Tuft.
The walk up the hill, through the ancient Pasture Woodland of Deny Wood had Tits & Chaffinches, but at the top of the hill &  through the rest of the wood it isn't so sheltered so there wasn't much about & it was the same over the heath & mire of Shatterford Bottom back to the car park.
Everything was laying low, which as it was starting to rain, didn't sound like a bad idea.