Nature shot, nesting Falcon

[Dick7Access]

http://i.imgur.com/YW6Fufm.jpg

 

[The_Doc_Man]

OK... gotta ask. Is that a case where someone parked a car an planted a tree under it?

 

[Dick7Access]

OK... gotta ask. Is that a case where someone parked a car an planted a tree under it?

I can't find the author of the photo. It was sent to me, and I sent it out to my list, and on AWF. One friend ask how they got it up there. I suspect a Photoshop job, but who knows, stranger things have happened.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

The other possibility is a tsunami that picked up the car but didn't wipe out the tree.

 

[Vassago]

We had a an old in the woods behind my house with trees growing all through it. There was also a bike that grew up and into a tree back there. I'm still not sure how the truck got there as it was completely surrounded by trees.

 

[Dick7Access]

I had pieces of land in Mass. about 45 years ago that I had surveyed. They had trouble finding one of the corners until they noticed a little piece of wire coming out of the bark of the tree right where the corner should have been. Digging around in the bark they found more barbed wire. They then found barbed wire beneath the soil going in the direction of where the side boundaries were. Since the tree wasn't that big in diameter they believed it was a fence post that had budded. Does any dendrologist out there know if that's possible.

 

[amberkei]

I had pieces of land in Mass. about 45 years ago that I had surveyed. They had trouble finding one of the corners until they noticed a little piece of wire coming out of the bark of the tree right where the corner should have been. Digging around in the bark they found more barbed wire. They then found barbed wire beneath the soil going in the direction of where the side boundaries were. Since the tree wasn't that big in diameter they believed it was a fence post that had budded. Does any dendrologist out there know if that's possible.

It's technically possible, if the wood was unprocessed (ie, not heat treated or sealed) for it to regenerate into a new tree.

Far more likely, I think, is that a sapling started near the base of the fence post, and grew up around the wires. Plants, woody plants especially, will grow around constrictions and seal them off - think of a nail in a tree that the bark grows over.

 

[Bladerunner]

We had a an old in the woods behind my house with trees growing all through it. There was also a bike that grew up and into a tree back there. I'm still not sure how the truck got there as it was completely surrounded by trees.

bet it has been there for a while then. a lot of old equipment around here that was set aside and now has trees, bushes and weeds growing in, around and through them

Have a nice day :>)

Bladerunner

 

[Dick7Access]

Take a look at the collection of cars and trees,
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/05/14/incredible-car-collection-uncovered-after-61-years/
DS