Tony Croft aka hamadryad

ha ha ha, im with you sloth! I guess we will have to go train and do the review thread ourselves!

no dont hide your ladders, just tell that bunch of eejits to shut it!

I would guess lipsiense, but no where near enough to go on yet

just moss Gerrit:thumbup1:

well shes a pretty bird!

good man for giving an old battery hen a good home, she looks right dandy now:thumbup1:

good shout Gollum, really really good shout!

I couldnt agree more, i just showed my bro too and he says they are awesome! how did you get the image so large on the A.T screen? hat resolution pixel rate?

how so? three way krabs?

erm, not being funny but have they not atken acount of Magpies, woodpeckers, and squirells too? they all eat chicks/eggs! and like cavities!

same as that, and i noted that sentiment on the willow too. we need more of this standard of approach and quality being presented, the more showing what can be achieved the more the rest will be shown for what it is.

thats a four day weekend, where and when?

not garaunteed, but im 99%

sparrowhawks:thumbup1:

they have predators:thumbup:

welcome fellow treeworker! there arent many folk around who would attempt the macrocarpa reduction, top draw

I was shy of the ground with my 45 metre tachyon by around 20ft, and there was 30ft of tree above us so 50ft plus 22.5 metres:001_cool:

this was destructive, not eating

i observed this for the first time today, and it was dropping the young foliage?

we found ramaria sp by this bridge.

Had Charlie over for the day for a bit of recreational climb and some fung hunting! Cheked up on a willow in cassiobury park with Gano and an Oak with rigidiporus ive been monitoring for several years now (David/Gerrit look at this Oak!) few other bits and bobs from around the park and Whippendell woods area. First up the Oak, now ive been watching this one over the years but I must have not looked this autumn for one reason or another and am a bit guttted for I missed the fruting of the third white rotter at the base. I had seen on approach to the tree two limbs with obvious white rot and failure which is a rare occurrence high on Oaks in the U.k, this lead me to ponder what was occurring. I have come to view multiple colonisations of ertain fungi as being of high significance due to the competition for resource within the host, and here we have not 1 not 2 but three white rotting Lower basal colonisers. They are Inonotus dryadeus, Ganoderma sp and Perenniporia fraxinea, a truly multiple attack! and all in nieghbouring buttress regions. The question here is which one is being forced into the higher regions? I suspect its the I.dryadeus. or gano as the basal area has clear perenniporia adaptation and was the original presence (most established) Ganoderma australe (southern bracket) on willow pollard Ganoderma pfeifferi on Fagus sylvatica Hama having a snooze while Charlie practices his limb swings! A first for me, a perennial canker of sweet chestnut, a very large one on an ancient chestnut Inonotus radiatus on Alder:001_cool: Rigidiporus on Horse chestnut Polyporus squamosus failure

remember the big plane by the bridge over the canal?

Took Charlie out for a bit of training today up cassiobury park and we found these beautiful grafts, I said ooohh gotta shoot those for our Mr Humphries! Was a cracking Oak, retrenching, really healthy tree would, have loved it in me garden.

ha ha, your all just sweating cos I ran rings round you on a prussik, spiderhamajackery is going to be sub sonic!