Last weekend I had a Saturday afternoon free to try and find a few mosses around the hamlet of Ripe. It should have been a pleasant cycle in mellow sunshine but rain was forecast and a farmer must have hired out all the sparkling, new farm vehicles in the area and these were filled to […]
BBS SE Group meeting 5 May 2019 A party of eleven met for the last (and hastily-arranged) BBS SE Group meeting of the season. We had intended to visit Hurstpierpoint back in September, but the weather wasn’t great, so this was a second attempt at our planned outing. In the mean time, Sue and […]
Hailsham About a month after my first visit the Cuckoo trail was still lined with white froth, but this time Hawthorn blossom and Cow Parsley replaced Blackthorn flowers. It was cold in the wind but not as bitterly cold as last time. My first stop was an Oak tree near the start of the trail […]
BBS SE meeting, 28 April 2019 Continuing the expansion of recording activity eastwards, this field meeting visited an almost completely unrecorded tetrad just north of Battle, largely in the parish of Netherfield. Sitting on the Ashdown Formation, this tetrad had just a handful of old unlocalised records including Ctenidium molluscum, Dichodontium pellucidum, Hookeria lucens, […]
Sussex Bryophytes 