This Bites
Some of my writer friends have squirrels to deal with. Yes, those rodents are definitely a pain in the birdfeeder.
Me?
Squirrels don’t give me any trouble. I don’t keep bird feeders. But I’ve got bigger backyard rodents to deal with: beavers.
Yep. Apparently the beavers have decided my deciduous trees are delicious. They appear to be helping themselves. Check this out! Here’s the chewed tree we discovered this past weekend.
This is a large tree, but it’s going to be a stump impersonating a pencil point any day now.
But that’s not the end of the story. Walking to the right of this big tree we came upon this beaver bitten evidence (see right).
Two more gnawed trees! (The one in the foreground is a double trunk.) And then walking up from the smaller tree in the photo, MORE damage!
The photo on the left shows that the tree on the right is the tree on the left in the previous photo. How’s that for confusing?
But look, there’s another tree that’s been nibbled and yet another further back that’s been chewed to nearly a stump.
Walking up from that small tree in the background we found this big bitten patch below.
I know they have to eat too. But yeah, it bites. Better make plans for planting this spring.
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