Today on my #wednesdaywalk I was focussing on trees.
As you might know I'm organising a weekly photocontest and every week I choose a new subject.
The subject for this round is TREES. Check out my post if you like to join the contest.
You can win POB and Ecency tokens.
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And now back to my #wednesdaywalk.
Today I made a cold, but refreshing walk in a nearby park.
And as I already mentioned; paid a lot of attention to the trees.
Trees are very important for the biodiversity. Not only do they produce the oxygen we need, they also provide a lot of ecological benefits to other species.
Even dead trees are important for the ecosystem of a forest or park. Nowadays gardeners and foresters leave the fallen trees in the forest. As fallen trees decompose, they release nutrients back into the soil.
The decomposing trees are a source food for many insects which again are food for birds.
It's a nice circle of life.
And dead trees make place for young trees to grow allowing the sun to reach the forest floor.
Here is an example of one of the small trees. This is a coniferous trees which are evergreen. I can't tell all the different species apart, so this could be a pine, spruce, fir, or cedar.
A bit further on I spotted a tree which won't be standing there very long I guess. A large part of the bark is missing.
I've seen multiple trees suffering from this. It might also be a disease, but judging by the holes I see I think it's caused by insects. Or maybe it's a combination of a disease and insects.
The following tree was also special. It has a sort of infection which caused these strange things to grow out of its bark.
It looks like all the trees are fallen over, sick or damaged, but that isn't the case. There are a lot of healthy trees in the park as well.
I'm also intrigued by the different patters of the tree bark there are. The following one (I don't know which tree it is; maybe an oak?) has quite a rough bark.
Here is another interesting bark I found. Again I don't know the species of this tree. Maybe one of you can tell me by this photo.
And this is the last tree of my post. This one has quite a lot of knobs on its bark. Out of some of them are growing little twigs already. But there are quite a lot of them and normally branches grow higher up in the tree.
I hope you liked my #wednesdaywalk too. At least I enjoyed walking and sharing it with you.
FriendlyMoose
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Every week I create a post with an overview of all the photography contests on Hive. You can find the weekly overview post by checking the #photocontests tag.
I also organise a weekly photography contest myself; the POB Photocontest. This weekly contests has a new subject every week and you can win POB tokens and Ecency points.
Check out the posts with the #pobphotocontest tag.
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