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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matt Prince" data-source="post: 2010613" data-attributes="member: 52862">Weekend 11th/12th DecemberSaturday started with another visit up onto the moor, the roads were better than the previous weekend, but not passable enough to be confident of getting to Fernworthy, so predictably it became a gastranomic tour, after which we popped into Bellever to look for salmon, again with no luck. However as we were walking down from the car park to the stream a familiar 'chipping' call meant all was not wasted. A small flock of Crossbill in the tree tops, at least a dozen birds, which would have been our main target if we had got to Fernworthy, so the day worked out rather well.Sunday was a slow start, a trip out to a partially frozen squabmoor reservoir with the fungi group. There was a surprising amount of macro fungi about, most that had been seen before, such as fly agaric, razorstrop fungus and lots of turkey tail. New fungi found were the distinctive Purplerpore Bracket, Variable Oysterling and Birch Mazegill. Sites visited: Bellever PlantationSpecies : Crossbill, Trichaptum abietinum (Purplepore Bracket), Crepidotus Variabilis (Variable Oysterling), Lenzites Betulinus (Birch Mazegill)Daed ConfragosaBirds 201; Fungi 234GT 1642</blockquote>