Wood ID - it has Birdseye , so maple?

Looks to me to be well aged sugar maple that is starting to rot

You're missing the most important picture when identifying if wood is oak or not - the end grain. The figure in the splits could be ray fleck although i don't think it is.

It looks like ray fleck to me ( Red Oak )
It for certain is not birds eye maple This is birds eye maple




Birdseye Maple

Birdseye

The rays are visible but this isn't a ring-porous oak. This is red or sugar maple, I'd side with sugar. If it were much lighter in color, perhaps I'd also throw sycamore, but the same rays would stand out much more with sycamore.
I can tell you with certainty that this is a maple, doesn't have birds eye, and is really, really dry (it looks like it dried standing).

For what it is worth, black birch can also have visible rays like the above splits, but it would be long rotted prior to appearing like the above piece.

Bark and length of ray flecks say white oak. End grain could confirm.

Burn a sliver........I can smell the sugar in the wood burning off with sugar maple, which this looks like to me.

Firewood from a firewood tree. Will rot eventually when left out uncovered and turns to an ash grey when burned...




Looks more like oak than maple to me...

I'm jumping on the Maple wagon. If it's dry, and the splits are still heavy, I'd think Sugar...but the splits do have a reddish tinge in a couple pics.