During the course of the meeting as well as recording some 50 mosses, we saw at least six Brimstone butterflies together with early Bluebells and Butterbur and heard the song from many Chiffchaffs.
Photographs from the Midger Wood Meeting
The pictures below were taken by Rob Bacon during the joint GNS-Bristol Naturalists meeting. They are of a variety of mosses, liverworts, fungi and lichen. Of the species shown the liverwort Nowellia curvifolia was a particularly good find.
Dicranum scoparium on Nowellia curvifolia
Thuidium tamariscinum and Polytrichum formosum
Reticularia lycoperdon
Scarlet Elf-cup (Sarcoscypha austriaca)
Scleropodium purum
Euryhnchium praelongum
Yellow Brain (Tremella mesenterica)
Thuidium tamariscinum
Isothecium myosuroides
Peltigera praetextata
Pellia epiphylla
Nowellia curvifolia
Mnium hornum
Frullania dilatata
Plagiochila asplenoides