Can anyone identify a tree for me please?

[MirandaWest]

I've recently moved house and am wondering what one of the trees in the garden is. It's the larger deciduous tree in the photo - I know the smaller one is a silver birch. Thank you :)

Might be easier when the leaves come out

Really impossible to say from that. Could be an ash. How tall is it, roughly? The leaves should be out soon and then you will be able to identify it. Also a closer pic of it would help.

I'll do a closer picture in the daytime :) I realise leaves would help but I am impatient

Perhaps Beech but hard to tell from that photo...

A closer pic of the bark and a twig to show the buds would help.

Yes more pics please

There might be dead leaf multch under the tree that would help a lot....chestnut, beech, maybe oak (I can hear my dad's voice telling me off pointing out the way the trunk splits for that one).

www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/learn/children-and-families/nature-detectives/how-to-identify-trees-in-winter/

Woodland trust page, with link to a twig and bud ID sheet.

It is a sycamore.

AddToBasket please share your classification process, for those of us who have forgotten/don't know.

I asked my DH (tree man). Just told me he'd bet our house on it. I've explained that won't be necessary.

But why???? How does he know?

I don't want any houses being bet on the tree . I have some more photos :)

Some close ups of the tree :)

Any leaves? Amy sycamore seeds?

I think it mighty be a sycamore too but I wouldn't like to bet without more photos.

My photos haven't appeared....

Close up of a branch

He's pretty adamant and now quite exercised about the whole thing. He just told me to go outside, photograph a sycamore and post it here. I've been saved by the dark

I'm not arguing with him. My day would have identified it from the first photo (the same way he could identify birds by their calls). I'd just like to be reminded what about that first photo says it has to be a sycamore, and not another type of tree.

^dad, not day.

The shape of the tree, the bark and the knot holes in the trunk for me ID it as a sycamore. I thought from the first photo but wanted to see the second close up to be sure.