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Silver Birch, Loch Ardinning
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Mugdock and Loch Ardinning
Silver Birch (Betula pendula) at Loch Ardinning Scottish Wildlife Trust nature reserve, Stirlingshire, taken by David Palmar. The bark is silvery and the twigs at the end of the branches exhibit a characteristic drooping habit.
20 November 2021
Downy Birch, Loch Ardinning
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Mugdock and Loch Ardinning
Downy Birch (Betula pubescens) at Loch Ardinning Scottish Wildlife Trust nature reserve, Stirlingshire, taken by David Palmar. Downy Birch is more upright than Silver Birch and its brown bark has horizontal grooves.
20 November 2021
Birch Polypore bracket fungus, Loch Ardinning
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Mugdock and Loch Ardinning
Birch Polypore or Razor Strop (Fomitopsis betulina), a common bracket fungus, at Loch Ardinning Scottish Wildlife Trust nature reserve, Stirlingshire, taken by David Palmar. Fungi help to rot down trees which are damaged or growing old, recycle their nutrients and provide habitat for invertebrates which attract woodpeckers.
20 November 2021
A witches' broom in a Birch tree, Garscube estate, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
A witches' broom in a Birch (Betula pendula) tree, caused by the witches' broom fungus (Taphrina betulina), in Garscube estate, Glasgow
04 June 2020
Witch's broom on Silver Birch, Forth and Clyde Canal, Ruchill
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Glasgow - North (Ruchill, Hamiltonhill, Forth and Clyde Canal Glasgow Branch)
Witch's broom, a ball-shaped deformity in a tree caused by a pathogen such as a fungus, in this case on Silver Birch (Betula pendula), near the Forth and Clyde Canal Glasgow branch, Ruchill
23 February 2020
Witch's broom on Silver Birch and Reed mace, Forth and Clyde Canal, Ruchill
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Glasgow - North (Ruchill, Hamiltonhill, Forth and Clyde Canal Glasgow Branch)
Witch's broom, a ball-shaped deformity in a tree caused by a pathogen such as a fungus, in this case on Silver Birch (Betula pendula), near the Forth and Clyde Canal Glasgow branch, Ruchill. In the foreground is Reed mace or bulrush (Typha sp).
23 February 2020
Silver Birch on Kirkconnel Flow
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Dumfriesshire - Kirkconnel Flow
Silver Birch (Betula pendula) on Kirkconnel Flow raised bog in Dumfries and Galloway
11 April 2019
Young Hooded crows in a nest, Kintyre
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CEP - Kintyre
Three young Hooded crows (Corvus cornix) in a nest in Glenadale, Mull of Kintyre, in 1984, scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar. The slide illustrates the nest site in a Silver Birch (Betula pendula) tree.
18 May 1984
Silver Birch, Hogganfield Park, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Hogganfield Loch
Silver Birch (Betula pendula), Hogganfield Park, Seven Lochs Wetland Park, Glasgow. Silver birch is recognisable by its silvery papery bark.
Volunteer James, ecologist with Natural Power, removing invasive Silver Birch (Betula pendula) with a tree popper on Lenzie Moss, as part of Butterfly Conservation Scotland's bog squad. Removing trees helps to keep the bog wet and encourages the growth of sphagnum and other peat-forming mosses. Peat is many times more effective than trees at sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, thus helping to combat climate change.
