It had been a long time since Sue and I had been mossing together, due to Covid and other restrictions. On a warm and sunny September day we took the train along the coast east to Cooden Beach. The tetrad (TQ70D) had only 29 taxa recorded – most by the late Rod Stern in 1989 […]
From Littlehampton station it’s a short hop over a shiny red footbridge to the Rope Walk and then a choice of footpaths to the beach. I picked up a small selection of common mosses from grass verges, tarmac and concrete near the bridge which brought the tetrad TQ00G from zero moss species recorded to five. […]
Last month I tried to get to a corner of TQ21X which is just in East Sussex. I couldn’t see how bonny the bryophytes of Bonny’s Wood were as it was fenced with deer fence and the gate was locked. The topography didn’t look too interesting (flat with no streams) so I headed towards woodland […]
The far east of East Sussex is rather poorly recorded on the progress map of the Atlas project, and as my wife and I have periodically stayed in Pett I have meant to do some recording here but attempts to find bryologically rich footpaths close to our coastal lodging covering these squares have not been […]
Sussex Bryophytes 