It was a beautiful early summer’s day when we, Rod, Sarah
and Polly, collected Jacky after her marathon drive from Kent to the hamlet of
Fron Goch, where there is a plaque commemorating the several thousand Irish
prisoners interned there after the Easter Risings. We travelled in one car to our second meeting
place where we found Jenny Lees waiting, making 5 botanists in all in the group
which set off towards Llyn Hesgyn.
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| First sight of Llyn Hesgyn with most of the team! |
We decided not to record until we got into our target monad
but in the event that was not too difficult as we set off over rather dull
improved grassland and then into dry heather moorland - the whole day was
notable for the paucity of records, so we were not too tempted! We reached the Llyn just about midday, and at
the very damp spot where we ate lunch we began to see a few interesting plants
– but although it was very hot by this time no-one was moved to follow Rod’s
example in going for a swim. Sadly he
didn’t produce any extra records from the deeper water than the
Myriophyllum alternifolium and
Littorella uniflora which fringed the
lake.
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| Eriophorum vaginatum in full flower |
Walking round the lake
to the only willow we saw [from which the eponymous warbler entertained us], we
were able to get nearer to the Water- lilies and to determine that both the
Yellow Water-lily
Nuphar lutea and
the White,
Nymphaea alba, were there.
They turned out to be first hectad records, as was the
Carex canescens [C. curta] White Sedge we found by the outflow
stream.
The journey back was as hot and unproductive as the way in,
but some of us were rewarded with a cream tea in the Hen Siop Fron Goch before
setting off home. Sadly we failed to
make the half-century – even the Sheep’s Sorrel, Rumex acetosella, in the neighbouring monad on the way home made
our score for the day only 49 recorded species!
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