fungal induced habitat

[David Humphries]

Oyster protruding out of this old woodpecker hole.

 

Something has its bedroom and larder in one place

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Fomitiporia punctata chomping through this willow creating the opportunity for tree nesting birds

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Nice! Is that at the Heath or elsewhere?

[David Humphries]

Nice! Is that at the Heath or elsewhere?

 

Yes at Hampstead, don't think we've felled it........yet

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

must.

 

 

get.

 

 

 

 

photos.

 

 

 

 

 

[David Humphries]

Ash with Inonotus hispidus, Perenipporia fraxinea & Ganoderma australe

 

White rot decay habitat that has been resurrected twice once its parent tree gave up the will to keep standing........

 

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[David Humphries]

Oak with the white rot of Ganoderma australe providing the ideal conditions for a woodpecker to tap out a Des Res.

Albeit quite low down for a Picus.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Splitting triple stemmed beech that we arrested by topping the delaminating stem and reducing the remainder of the canopy by a couple of meters two of years ago.

 

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The topped stem was finished off with a coronet, and habitat slits

 

Today we saw both a green and greater spotted woodpecker investigating the dysfunctional wood volume.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Gary Prentice]

You're a lucky man David, employed in doing what you obviously enjoy.

 

I'd like your job, or one on Mythbusters blowing things up:biggrin:

 

 

 

Said in acknowledgement that you make your own 'luck'.

[David Humphries]

You're a lucky man David......

 

.......Said in acknowledgement that you make your own 'luck'.

 

 

'Luck' that's been 32 years in the making

 

 

 

 

 

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