tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2945686662242865677.post3860694632876788947..comments2024-03-09T16:04:59.378+00:00Comments on Calderdale Wildlife: Another imported fungi Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11118262782035356905noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2945686662242865677.post-46955575706331298472017-02-09T23:37:11.596+00:002017-02-09T23:37:11.596+00:00Hi Steve, It's me that should be thanking you ...Hi Steve, It's me that should be thanking you and the HSS for allowing my postings on your blog! Hope you find some of interest.<br /><br />About local Sweet Chestnuts. There is one in Centre Vale Park at Todmorden that is maybe 170 years old. Also a coppiced one in the Park woodlands planted about 30 years ago.<br /><br />There was a large one in Hebden Bridge that had a TPO but was legally felled a few years ago.<br /><br />As you have observed Steve, older trunks have a characteristic spiral pattern on the trunk.Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06958943713830532172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2945686662242865677.post-54050995853595152072017-02-09T22:23:49.608+00:002017-02-09T22:23:49.608+00:00Thanks for your fascinating posts, Philip.
Hope yo...Thanks for your fascinating posts, Philip.<br />Hope you don't mind that I've put our poster back up to the top.Steve Blacksmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03795912451617499115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2945686662242865677.post-12290723713026975412017-02-09T21:03:35.331+00:002017-02-09T21:03:35.331+00:00Another worrying disease.
I only know small sucker...Another worrying disease.<br />I only know small suckering Sweet Chestnuts in our area.<br />There was an old Sweet Chestnut in Well Head Fields near the Shay Football ground which we lobbied to retain, along with the fields around it, but they got houses built on them, and the tree destroyed.<br />It had a spiral pattern to its bark-grooves around the trunk.<br /><br />I was thinking about the Elms in connection with Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers. Both have become rare. Maybe there was a relationship. The only nest I ever saw was in the dead trunk of an Elm at Elland.Steve Blacksmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03795912451617499115noreply@blogger.com