During one of the Covid lockdowns (I forget which) I set up a Glamorgan Bryophytes Facebook group, with the intention of encouraging more widespread recording in the county, particularly in the east, while we were unable to travel far from home. It has been pretty successful, with 65 people having become group members and many of them now submitting records via SEWBReCORD.
I'd promised to run an informal recording session some time ago, and this finally came to fruition last Sunday (6th March) with an afternoon outing to Barry Sidings (in RCT, not Barry). The site is situated on the north-facing side of the lower Rhondda valley, being mainly conifer plantation with numerous small streams.
Six people came along and all professed to have enjoyed it by the end (I hope they weren't just being polite). It was great to have Peter Sturgess along to help field the many queries, and as an extra pair of eyes.
Predictably we took forever to get out of the car park, which had a nice north-facing retaining wall that held a good range of common species.
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| Photo: Caroline O'Rourke |
We then progressed up the hillside, following a small stream that had some Palustriella commutata growing in it, and plentiful Hookeria alongside which was admired by all.
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| Hookeria lucens |
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| Fruiting Plagiomnium undulatum |
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| Cornish Moneywort |
