Monday 17 April 2017

Skinless Branches


    This tree blew down last fall in a wind storm and I guess it’s bark had enough nutrients in it to attract animals that stripped the branches bare.  Winter is a time when there isn’t a lot of food available for wildlife so I guess they were happy to have the bark.  I assume it was deer that did the gnawing on this poplar, although mice, spending the winter under the snow also like to eat bark, especially the bark of young fruit trees, much to the annoyance of orchardist.  If they girdle the tree it will die.

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