Strange find...

[Ty Korrigan]

Well, I'm off work today so I was browsing my images and came across these from last Winter.

A Spruce with a gurt fissure running up it.

In the fissure, preserved in resin was a mouse!

I guess from watching the tree move in the wind that the fissure opened and closed on the timorous wee fleekit before coating it for posterity in varnish.

Ty

[Stubby]

What a grim way to go !"

[wisewood]

Weird!

That could go in the hungry tree thread.

[Dan Curtis]

Seen a pigeon head first in the same situation. As it rotted, its neck was stretched by its hanging body weight

[Ian Flatters]

Wow, never seen anything like that! Cool pics Ty

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I always think about bats living in hazard beams and other crack defects suffering fatalities due to movements. That poor old mousey! got himself in a shear crack, that was bound to end in disaster!

[Ty Korrigan]

Tony, as this thread has interested you, would you mind having a stab at just what the rot was please.

I think it was a Norway spruce...

Cheers

Ty

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony, as this thread has interested you, would you mind having a stab at just what the rot was please.

I think it was a Norway spruce...

Cheers

Ty

 

two possible candidates in my opinion Phaeolus and fomitopsis pinicola hard to be certain would go with the former but not too sure how common P. shweinitzii is on spruce