Category: Field meeting reports
These are the reports of past field meetings, which may be a year or more old. To see our current activities, check out this season’s field meetings.
Eridge Rocks
Meeting date: 8 October 2023 (Leader: Brad Scott) A joint meeting with the BBS South-East Bryology Group. Eridge Rocks is such a famous bryological site that it attracted an impressive […]
Adur Estuary
Meeting date: 24 September 2023 (Leader: Sue Denness) Eighteen members met at the Adur Recreation Ground car park on a bright, sunny morning to record along the west, then east […]
Ashburnham Estate
Meeting date: 19 August 2023 (Leaders: Jacqueline Rose and Judy Clark) Despite the Farmers’ Market and the Craft Market there was plenty of room in the car park, where the […]
Hammer Wood, Chithurst
Meeting date: 13 August 2023 (Leader: Ben Benatt) Hammer Wood itself consists of approximately 200 acres of semi-natural woodland owned by Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, and we also visited some adjacent […]
Tunbridge Wells
Meeting date: 3 August 2023 (Leaders: Elaine Boot & Geoffrey Kitchener) This was a joint meeting with the Kent Botanical Recording Group. Thirteen members of a combined Sussex and Kent […]
Leonardslee
Meeting date: 26 July 2023 (Leader: Elliot Chandler) At a little past 3.30 in a small boggy flush leading down to the far end of the last lake, some of […]
Lords Wood, Lodsworth
Meeting date: 8 July 2023 (Leader: Paul Whitby) Twelve members drove down a mile long private track to the depths of the Sussex countryside north of Lodsworth to walk around […]
Well Bottom
Meeting date: 2 July 2023 (Leader: Helen Proctor) From Firle Beacon car park, six members battled against the strong cool wind on the South Downs Way to reach the top […]
Danehill Meadows
Meeting date: 25 June 2023 (Leader: Ben Benatt) We explored three locations within the Danehill meadows complex aiming to identify any areas that still possess species-rich grassland. In his book Land […]
Willand Wood, Ebernoe
Meeting date: 14 June 2023 (Leader: Frances Abraham) This meeting had been billed as a visit to the Sussex Wildlife Trust fields, formerly part of Butcherland Farm, which are in […]