Ballachurry Reserve - a mossy special!

Good friend of the Reserve, Louise Samson, recently spent some time identifying the mosses that grow there for us. They are mostly on the bridge and wall near the entrance. She kindly sent me this list for our records:

The following common and widespread mosses:

Creeping feather moss Ambylstegium serpen (near the western bench)

Silky wall feather moss Homalothecium sericeum (bridge/wall at entrance)

Revolute beard moss Pesudocrossidium revolutum (bridge/wall at entrance)

Wall screw moss Tortula mulais (bridge/wall at entrance)

Redshank Ceratodon purpureus (bridge/wall at entrance)

Small hairy screw moss Syntrichia laevipila (bridge/wall at entrance)

I do have some photos of mosses, but unfortunately I mostly don't know which is which! But here they are. We tend to walk right past them ( even over them) as we enter the Reserve whereas they really merit closer examination.

some colourful lichen too

Notice the lichen too

I think this is the Creeping feather moss. It is growing
on a piece of carpet round one of the holly saplings.

Many thanks to Louise for adding to our knowledge of Ballachurry's ever expanding wildlife. 

Most of these photos were taken on 18th January. You might  like to look again to the Post for that date which has had a few extra photos added.