Dead Wood Habitat

[David Humphries]

Just catching up on threads I missed...

 

The Belgian can hereby confirm that visiting Davids playground is well worth the trip Some pioneering work being done there (especially when seen from a Belgian point of view, running decades behind ... )

 

And while I'm here, might as well post some pics of a park tree (if I remember well it was beech) in Ghent that has been gone for many years, but that spent the last 5 years of his life looking like this (at least one visionary deed over here):

 

 

Thanks for adding Tom.

 

Fine piece of work.

 

Is the sculpture inspected ?

 

 

 

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[Tom Joye]

Thanks for adding Tom.

 

Fine piece of work.

 

Is the sculpture inspected ?

 

 

 

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I wasn't really involved, it was well before my time (I noticed it being there, but was still a student at that time, so my priorities lied elsewhere )

 

The statue was just felled one day, so I guess someone decided that it was no longer safe to retain

[David Humphries]

Not quite deadwood habitat, but habitat no less.

 

Came across this Ash & Inonotus a few days ago, took a few shots.

 

Went by it yesterday & sitting on the bracket was a Lesser Spotted Wood Pecker.

Couldn't get my camera out quick enough, and missed a great shot

 

Went up to it and saw where the Pecker was starting to make use of the onset of the white rot of the fungus (last two shots)

 

Will monitor the tree & reduce if/when required.

 

 

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[RobArb]

Nice shots

 

Is that a narrow leaved ash? Looks to "green" to be a common?

 

Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

[Fungus]

Came across this Ash & Inonotus a few days ago, took a few shots. Went by it yesterday & sitting on the bracket was a Lesser Spotted Wood Pecker. Went up to it and saw where the Pecker was starting to make use of the onset of the white rot of the fungus (last two shots)

 

David,

A nice case of activity of the arborist's little helper.

[David Humphries]

David,

A nice case of activity of the arborist's little helper.

 

 

 

Missed that one completely Gerrit

 

Thanks for re-posting

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Standing dead wood.

 

It does have a 'sell by date'

 

Particularly if it's a species like Salix

 

Here is a shot of the 'Monolith' from Oct 2008, it was reduced to that state approximately 10 years ago.

 

The last shots are from this week.

 

Mainly Ganoderma present & the red alien looking slime mold.

 

The feeding galleries show just how well this type of habitat is used.

 

 

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[sean freeman]

Wow excellent pics and what fantastic use of the habitat job well done by the crew keeping that one standing.

[Fungus]

Standing dead wood. It does have a 'sell by date' Particularly if it's a species like Salix

Here is a shot of the 'Monolith' from Oct 2008, it was reduced to that state approximately 10 years ago. The last shots are from this week.

Mainly Ganoderma present & the red alien looking slime mold. The feeding galleries show just how well this type of habitat is used.

 

Excellent job :thumbup: !

[David Humphries]

Wow excellent pics and what fantastic use of the habitat job well done by the crew keeping that one standing.

 

It's good to try & keep the succession going with these things.

 

Here's the neighbour of the collapsed one, no more than 15m away.

This one was 'monolithed' in 2008

 

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