The main event last week was a gentle start to our recording season with a canal walk from Gilwern to Llangattock. As one of our number remarked this canal is unusual in not having an associated railway - we suspect because the industry it served was already in decline by the railway age.
There was plenty of botanical interest and we were able to identify a good proportion of the different species seen giving a good list for the day.
Surprisingly - for a 3 mile stretch - there was only one modern road bridge between our start and finish. But there were plenty of bridges such as this one - once important for routes now preserved as public rights of way.
Hedera hibernica, Atlantic Ivy was seen along the route - sometimes with magnificent colour as here.
The remains of a once great estate included this magnificent Wellingtonia
or
Sequoiadendron giganteum - certainly planted.
(Thanks to Sue for the photographs - my camera battery ran out early on and I had failed to bring the spare...)
Then, this weekend, the fine weather brought on some Whitlow-grass into flower near where I live in Hay. It turns out to be the same species we first identified in Brecon last year and obviously ready to be found elsewhere in the county:
Glabrous Whitlowgrass, Llysiau’r-bystwn llyfn
or
Erophila glabrescens
and again closer up.
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At the beginning of last week I pottered around between Erwood and Builth looking for Mistletoe - I didn't find any but did encounter this magnificent Wye view from Little Hill.
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