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Silver Birch sapling near Grantown-on-Spey
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Grantown on Spey and Lochindorb
Silver Birch (Betula pendula) sapling near Grantown-on-Spey, taken by David Palmar
28 July 2023
Northern Brown Argus butterfly on Downy Birch, Grantown-on-Spey
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Grantown on Spey and Lochindorb
Northern Brown Argus (Aricia artaxerxes) butterfly on Downy Birch (Betula pubescens) near Grantown-on-Spey, taken by David Palmar. Note the white spot on the forewing.
25 June 2023
Silver Birch woodland, Vane Hill, RSPB Loch Leven
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Perth and Kinross - Loch Leven
Silver Birch (Betula pendula) woodland, Vane Hill, RSPB Loch Leven
19 March 2017
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
Bracken and mixed woodland, Tom Soilleir, Cashel
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Loch Lomond - East Loch Lomond
The hill of Tom Soilleir, with a mixed vegetation of Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), evergreen conifers, Larch (Larix decidua), Silver Birch (Betula pendula) and Willow (Salix sp) taken by David Palmar at Cashel Native Forest, East Loch Lomond
13 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
Rosebay Willowherb with Silver Birch behind, Carrifran Wildwood
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Carrifran Wildwood
Rosebay Willowherb (Chamerion angustifolium) with Silver Birch (Betula pendula) behind, Carrifran Wildwood, Moffat. Like much of Scotland, Carrifran used to be wooded. From the Neolithic onwards, farmers cleared woodland for buildings and grazing, and hunted predators which had kept grazing under control. Until the Millennium, Carrifran was, like other valleys in the Southern Uplands, denuded of trees by grazing and felling. Deer, sheep and goats would have eaten the young trees trying to regenerate. Now a project, led by Borders Forest Trust, with a 100-year vision to restore wild woodland, is in progress, with exclusion of grazers and planting of different native tree species to provide a rich habitat for wildlife.
17 September 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
