A rather damp couple of hours in Darnley woods late morning failed to locate the Winter Aconite which I have found flowering there on previous occasions. However amongst the general neglect and decay (great for wildlife in the short term but potentiallycatastrophic for the ecosystem as a whole) were various fungi (including Hairy Curtain-crust, Honey Fungus and Elf Cup) and Slime Moulds, male and female flowers of Hazel, my first Snowdrop flower of the year and a Woodcock inadvertently flushed from the woodland floor.