[NatureNS] Mouse Damage on Trees

Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 23:18:38 -0300
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A couple of years ago I lost a black ash sapling to mice.  The same 
thing, the bark was girdled under the snow.
Billy
On 23 Apr 2015 23:32, plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca wrote:
> 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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