Creating and maintaining deadwood habitat

[David Humphries]

Impressive, nice to see work carried out with conservation in mind, have any been discovered with roosting noctules yet?

 

 

Pips & noctules

 

 

 

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[Eddy_t]

Lovely!

Prefer pips, can't hear them squeak

[Treemoose]

Mr humphries while I can't sleep I was just wondering about your monoliths

Is it always decidous trees or do you monolith conifers aswell? I'm guessing that their is a lot less bio diversity in conifers or is that totally wrong? if so what native wildlife would they attract

 

Robarb is right you have the best job great stuff

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Plunged in a few entrance slots through to the central cavity for potential furry inhabitants.

 

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I think this particular example is superb, one to definatley use as much as poss.

 

I recently got to work on a nice veteran tree, we was there for other work but I spotted this tree rather prone to losing its top in the near future. The area of woodland while low risk is an area the children will be playing at various times, not only was that a consideration I also wanted to ensure that the potential habitat of the open cavity of the central wood was not ripped open and exposed by the failure of the top.

 

It was a burn on site job and I ended up also having to get buckets of water sent up as a spark caught the rotten wood in the cavity alight, lots of fun and games!

 

My gut instinct for this trees potential proved right as a tawny flew out of the tree as I climbed! gave me a start I can tell you, happening a lot lately! seen three barn owls and a little owl also this last year.

 

I guess this is more preservation than creation, but been a while since I posted anything of any worth.

 

 

 

[David Humphries]

Mr humphries while I can't sleep I was just wondering about your monoliths

Is it always decidous trees or do you monolith conifers aswell? I'm guessing that their is a lot less bio diversity in conifers or is that totally wrong? if so what native wildlife would they attract

 

 

Mr Moose, I apologize that my monoliths are the only comfort to you in the wee hours

 

A small proportion of the total, but we do maintain a few coniferous monos, mainly Pine.

When theres a take down or decay/storm failure we often will leave a section of trunk standing.

 

The brown rot of Phaeolus appears to provide a fine habitat for weevils, wood boring wasps & other bugs.

 

Sadly no Pine Martins in London to cater for

 

 

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[Treemoose]

Mr Moose, I apologize that my monoliths are the only comfort to you in the wee hours

 

A small proportion of the total, but we do maintain a few coniferous monos, mainly Pine.

When theres a take down or decay/storm failure we often will leave a section of trunk standing.

 

The brown rot of Phaeolus appears to provide a fine habitat for weevils, wood boring wasps & other bugs.

 

Sadly no Pine Martins in London to cater for

 

 

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Thanks mr H I can sleep easy now

[felixthelogchopper]

Mr humphries while I can't sleep I was just wondering about your monoliths

Is it always decidous trees or do you monolith conifers aswell? I'm guessing that their is a lot less bio diversity in conifers or is that totally wrong? if so what native wildlife would they attract

 

Robarb is right you have the best job great stuff

 

Arbogrunt, Geoff and I did a Scots Pine monolith a couple of months ago on the estate I run. There seems to be a lot of interest in both the standing dead timber and the sections we removed which are lying where they fell.

[Xerxses]

Inspiring as preusual Mr Humphries!

Looking forward to a revisit. Things didn't work out as I hoped for but I'm standing my ground, regrouping, retrenching ;-) and in the initial phase of a planned invasion!

[David Humphries]

Ta Herr Xerxses.

You know where we are Tobias, doors always open

 

Plus my annual 'performance review' always looks far more professional to my boss when I state my intention to host at least one EU Arb visit per year

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Inspiring as preusual Mr Humphries!

Looking forward to a revisit. Things didn't work out as I hoped for but I'm standing my ground, regrouping, retrenching ;-) and in the initial phase of a planned invasion!

 

good to hear Tobias, missed your enthusiastic presence this autumn.