Regal Monolith Habitation

Here's a Beech that has finaly succombed to the ravages of Father Time, a crude toppalithing and among other mycoassociations, Meripilus, has done for it.

Post reduction, it had survived off it's one sad and solitary sap riser for a few years.

But that was just a side show of personal experimentation, as H&S drove the overall spec.

Created a recessed bat abode, although plenty of inverts and avian usage, there's no classic evidence of bat activity.

The 'crown' of saprophytic fungi is possibly one of the Trametes sp, I've not been up to I'd.

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Nice work, sad to see what must once have been a pretty grand tree end up in such a state, great to see it being used for habitat tho, something which isn't done enough in my opinion!

Where abouts is the tree? Country park type setting?

Very nice to see it still fulfilling a purpose!!

Where abouts is the tree? Country park type setting?

Urban Open Space, a few klicks from the centre of London

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Urban Open Space, a few klicks from the centre of London

 

 

 

 

 

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Even better then! I work for a country estate in Norfolk and we try where possible to use trees, which would otherwise have been felled, as bat and bird habitat.

........a year on, here the trametes has helped break down the wood structure to allow this woodpecker to move in and create the next generation.

Job done

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Cool! Is still a thing of beauty!!

Bit of the old gibbosa, seems to love those big top cuts on beeches.

nice work david, reckon those bats will find this one sooner or later:thumbup1:

great stuff. Would love to get involved with this sort of work one day.

Good job and well captured