[NatureNS] Mouse Damage on Trees

Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:32:57 -0300
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Snow is still several feet deep in most places in my parents' yard in Bedford.  This evening I noticed something interesting though on the exposed bank above the driveway.  Since it catches the sun the snow has already melted there.  A large multi-stemmed Red-berried Elder had its bark stripped away for at least a foot from the ground up. The bare stems shone white in the snowy twilight.   The entire shrub will die; the work of mice, I assume, under the snow. 

My Dad's fruit trees are still buried in snow - I hope they have not suffered.

Patricia L. Chalmers
Halifax


---- Nicholas Hill <fernhillns@gmail.com> wrote: 
> The hazel's female red flowers opened yesterday and two pair yellow-rumped
> warblers fly catching ? In an old oak. Dead deer on beach near Ogilvie's
> wharf. Amazing mouse damage on bark of young fruit trees. Hard winter.

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