Carn Goedog

Of the various tors on Mynydd Preseli, Carn Goedog appears perhaps the least well recorded. I'd touched on it briefly with Paddy last winter, extending the known distribution of Gymnomitrion crenulatum to the west, but it seemed worth a proper look on a blustery Christmas eve. 

Tiny patches of Scapania scandica and Plagiochila spinulosa were nice on the north-facing slope here. Fir clubmoss Huperzia selago, wilson's filmy fern Hymenophyllum wilsonii and tunbridge filmy fern Hymenophyllum tunbrigense were in several places among the boulders. I startled a hare on Carn Meini, the first I've seen up here, whilst recording a few more patches of Grimmia elongata to add to the one I'd found at the start of the year.

Grimmia elongata