Sim Elliott
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...
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Sim Elliott
Mar 284 min read
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...
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Sim Elliott
Feb 247 min read
The woodland of Bedelands Farm Local Nature Reserve, Burgess Hill. 09.02.24
I reached Bedelands Farm by train from Brighton. I got the train to Wivelsfield (direct trains, two an hour, journey time 18mins, or...
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Sim Elliott
Nov 21, 20232 min read
Tree Lungwort & Tunbridge Filmy-fern, High Weald, Sussex. 20.11.23
I am not going to reveal where we found these species as the lichen Tree Lungwort, Lobaria pulmonaria, and Tunbridge Filmy-fern,...
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Sim Elliott
Nov 12, 20233 min read
Autumn Fungi at Friston Forest, Forestry England, East Sussex. 10.11.23
We reached Friston Forest by bus from Brighton. The 12 bus runs frequently. Friston Forest is behind the Seven Sisters Country Park at...
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Sim Elliott
Nov 9, 20236 min read
Autumn Fungi at The Mens Nature Reserve, Sussex Wildlife Trust, West Sussex. 06.11.23
I received a lift in a friend's car to the Mens from Brighton. It is possible to reach the Mens by train, bus and foot. by taking the...
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Sim Elliott
Nov 2, 20234 min read
Autumn Fungi at Ebernoe Common National Nature Reserve, Sussex Wildlife Trust, West Sussex. 31.10.23
I reached Ebernoe from Brighton by train, bus and foot. Details of how to get to Ebernoe is given here: Lichens, Bryophytes, Fungi and...
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Sim Elliott
Oct 27, 20234 min read
Cladonia species lichens and fungi at Broadwater Warren. 23.10.23
I reached Broadwater Warren by taking the 29 bus from Brighton to Eridge Green and walking through the Sussex Wildlife Trust's Eridge...
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Sim Elliott
Aug 31, 202310 min read
Chailey Commons: Marsh Gentians and other flowers, bryophytes, fungi, lichens & insects 25.08.23
We always seem to see something special when we visit the Chailey Commons. Dave Bangs, The Land of the Brighton Line: A field guide to...
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Sim Elliott
Aug 23, 20239 min read
Coed Lletywalter, Coed Aber Artro, Coed Cymerau Isaf & Coed Garth 16-18.08.23
From the 16th to the 18th of August, whilst on holiday in Porthmadog, I visited four smaller Oak Woodlands. This post contains the...
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Sim Elliott
Jul 31, 20233 min read
Nap Wood; a High Weald Ghyll Wood, East Sussex. Trees, Fungi, Bryophytes & Lichen. 31.07.23
A wonderful opportunity to walk along an ancient sunken drovers pathway through woodland. The one mile circuitous route takes the walker...
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Sim Elliott
Apr 29, 20236 min read
Crowborough Warren, Ashdown Forest & Five Hundred Acre Wood. Plants, Lichen, Bryophytes. 29.04.23
Every year, more than a million people travel to Ashdown Forest to find the North Pole. Ashdown Forest is 40 miles south of London, but...
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Sim Elliott
Apr 13, 202311 min read
Lichens, Bryophytes, Fungi and Wild Flowers at Ebernoe Common. 07.04.23
Ebernoe Common is a low weald heath, ancient wood and wood pasture nature reserve managed by the Sussex Wildlife Trust reserve, north of...
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Sim Elliott
Mar 3, 20235 min read
Crowborough Country Park & Crowborough Ghyll. Frogs, Bryophytes & Dinosaurs. 24.02.23
Crowborough Country Park was previously a clay quarry and Crowborough Ghyll is a typical High Weald ghyll wood. Both nature reserves are...
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Sim Elliott
Feb 26, 20237 min read
The Mens Nature Reserve, West Sussex: Trees, Landscape, Bryophytes, Lichens and Fungi. 20.02.23
The Mens is an extraordinary landscape; it is a nature reserve maintained by the Sussex Wildlife Trust. The unusual name ... comes from...
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Sim Elliott
Feb 16, 20237 min read
Kingley Vale: Yews, Epiphytes, Fungi and The Devil's Humps. 11.02.23
Kingley Vale is a National Nature Reserve famous for its historic Yews. I visit Kingley Vale regularly. Its yews, other trees, and short...
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Sim Elliott
Jan 31, 202310 min read
Lichen, Bryophytes & Fungi. Marline Valley Nature Reserve, Hastings. 31.01.22
Marline Valley is a wonderful mix of semi-natural ancient woodland, unimproved meadows and a classic Sussex ghyll stream situated on the...
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Sim Elliott
Jan 26, 20234 min read
Lichens, Bryophytes, Fungi and Birds. Waterhall Nature Reserve & The Devil's Dyke. 23.01.23
Over the weekend a local lichenologist saw a String of Sausages, Usnea aticulata, following a fellow member of the British Lichen Society...
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Sim Elliott
Jan 21, 20233 min read
Eridge Rocks: A wonderland of lichen, fungi, moss, liverworts and slime moulds. 04.01.23
This was the second time I have visited Eridge Rocks. It is easy to get to by bus from Brighton; take the 29 29 - Brighton-Tunbridge...
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Sim Elliott
Jan 20, 20235 min read
Eridge Park (SSSI) East Sussex; Lichen, Bryophytes, Fungi and Landscape. 23.12.22
Eridge Park is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, to the east of Eridge Green Rock, south of Tunbridge Wells. The landscape is shaped...
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