A Lake and a Wood

One of my group led a walk for the Talgarth Walking Festival at Llangorse Lake on Monday with myself backing up. This yielded some first records for some time from the churchyard wall – including Erophila verna and Saxifraga tridactylites.

Common Whitlowgrass,
Llysiau’r-bystwn ar
or
Erophila verna

Rue-leaved Saxifrage,
Tormaen tribys
or
Saxifraga tridactylites

We also saw Ranunuculus bulbosus - recorded before for the meadows around the lake - but not very often. It later turned up at the meeting point for yesterday's meeting - again not recorded there (in Brecon) for a long time.

Bulbous Buttercup,

Blodyn-ymenyn bondew
or
Ranunculus bulbosus

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Then yesterday we went to record in and around a woodland in Glyn Tarell - of which we got a great view later in the day:

Glyn Tarell near Brecon

We saw plenty of good things including:

Bilberry,
Llusen
or
Vaccinium myrtillus

Yellow Archangel,
Marddanhadlen felen
or
Lamiastrum galeobdolon

Marsh Valerian,
Triaglog y gors
or
Valeriana dioica

... and a Liverwort in full display:

Not forgetting the Bluebells...

And we heard a Cuckoo...