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Cladonia lichens at Ambersham Common. 03.12.24
On Tuesday I saw a magnificent selection of Cladonia species lichen (mostly pixies cups) at Ambesham Common; I noted 12 species. You can...
Sim Elliott
Dec 10, 20243 min read
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Hatfield Forest: Wood Pasture Oaks and Pollarded Hornbeam. 23.11.24
Hatfield is of supreme interest in that all the elements of a medieval Forest survive: deer, cattle, coppice woods, pollards, scrub,...
Sim Elliott
Dec 5, 20245 min read
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Low Weald ancient pasture woodland: trees and lichens at Ebernoe Common. 18.11.24
Ebernoe is dominated by old wood pasture where Commoners would have turned out their cattle or pigs to graze and browse on young trees...
Sim Elliott
Nov 20, 20249 min read
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Ancient Woodland in the Surrey Hills: Banstead Wood. 19.11.24
The ancient Banstead Woods were fabulously beautiful today with their array of autumn colours (even in 4ºC and pouring rain). They are...
Sim Elliott
Nov 20, 20243 min read
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Ancient Woodland of the Surrey Low Weald: Honesland Wood and Staffhurst Wood. 16.11.24
The lure for visiting Staffhurst Wood was reading its SSSI specification which says: The old oak trees support a rich lichen flora...
Sim Elliott
Nov 19, 20247 min read
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Waxcap Watching in 16 locations in Sussex by bus and train. October 2024
A medieval deer park (Buxted Park) Four churches & a chapel (Little Horsted, Uckfield, Five Ash Down, & Eridge Green) 08.10.24 A cemetery...
Sim Elliott
Oct 17, 20246 min read
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Sim Elliott
Sep 26, 20244 min read
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Oxleas Woods; ancient woodland in London. Shooters Hill. Royal Borough of Greenwich. 12.07.24
A site of special scientific interest (SSSI), the ancient Oxleas woods covers 77 hectares and is at least 8,000 years old. Oxleas Woods,...
Sim Elliott
Aug 15, 20246 min read
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Six photographic still lives: vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens in the ruins of Tide Mills and the Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital, 12.08.24
This post focusses on assemblages ("still lives") of vascular plants, bryophytes, lichen, shingle, brick, mortar and concrete at Tide...
Sim Elliott
Aug 14, 20245 min read
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East Head, West Wittering, West Sussex. Vascular Plants (12 Sussex RPR species), Lichens & Birds 28.05.24, 01.06.24 and 01.07.24.
East Head is one of the most captivating biological assemblages in Sussex; with fascinating geomorphological. I have visited it three...
Sim Elliott
Jul 9, 20247 min read
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Nature & architecture. Bateman's, Brightling's Follies & Dallington Forest SSSI. High Weald, East Sussex. 28.06.24
My walk through Bateman's, Brightling and Dallington Forest started at Burwash. I reached Burwash by getting the 29A bus from Brighton to...
Sim Elliott
Jul 8, 202414 min read
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Exploring the diversity of vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens in Sussex Wildlife Trust's Selwyns Wood. 07.05.24
Selwyns Wood is a small nature reserve south of Cross-in-Hand, near Heathfield, East Sussex. It can be reached by the 29A Brighton & Hove...
Sim Elliott
May 12, 20246 min read
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Uncovering the secrets of Tide Mills, Newhaven: Adder's-Tongue Fern, Sedge Warblers & Reed Warblers singing, and a Cunning Fox on Thursday 03.05.24
I reached Tide Mills from by the 12 bus; which has a Tide Mills bus stop. Coaster 12 - Eastbourne - Brighton | Brighton & Hove Buses. I...
Sim Elliott
May 6, 20243 min read
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The Adder Who Came To Lunch and some vascular plants at Birling Gap. 01.05.24
We saw this Adder on a Sussex Botanical Recording Society field meeting at Birling Gap. For details of the Sussex Botanica; Recording...
Sim Elliott
May 3, 20244 min read
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Borde Hill Garden. Ancient High-Weald woodland and introduced trees and shrubs. 20.04.22
I reached Borde Hill Garden by walking from Hayward Heath Station. Trains to Haywards Heath station from Brighton run around 15 minutes...
Sim Elliott
Apr 24, 20243 min read
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12 Golden-Eye Lichens on one Hawthorn. The resurgence of the once-thought-extinct Teloschistes chrysophthalmus on the South Downs. 06.04.24
Distribution map from Teloschistes chrysophthalmos | The British Lichen Society I travelled by the 29 bus to reach Lewes. I am not going...
Sim Elliott
Apr 7, 20248 min read
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Ashcombe Bottom, East Sussex. Relict ancient woodland on the South Downs. Birds, vascular plants, bryophytes, lichen & fungi. 01.04.21
Ashcombe Bottom, 4km west of Lewes, is one of the very few ancient woodlands left on the East Sussex Downs. Owen Johnson (1998) The...
Sim Elliott
Apr 3, 20246 min read
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Handsome Woollywort and other bryophytes in a High Weald ghyll wood, East Sussex, 25.03.24
This post focusses on the bryophytes of a ghyll wood in the High Weald National Landscape. Common Tamarisk-Moss; Endive Pellia and...
Sim Elliott
Mar 28, 20244 min read
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Butt's Meadow and Babylon Down, Eastbourne. 17.02.24
I reached Butt's Meadow by train and bus from Brighton. I got the train from Brighton to Polegate (4 trains and hour, 2 direct, 2 change...
Sim Elliott
Mar 4, 20244 min read
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Castle Hill Local Nature Reserve, Newhaven. 16.02.24
I reached Castle Hill by bus from Brighton. I got the 12X bus to Newhaven Lower Place (journey time ca. 30 mins; 12: bus; 40 mins; 12A...
Sim Elliott
Feb 25, 20246 min read
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