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Hi Patricia,
The Elder will have a better chance at recovery, by sprouting from the
root mass, if the girdled tops are cut back to ground level ASAP.
Yt, DW Kentville
----- Original Message -----
From: <plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:32 PM
Subject: [NatureNS] Mouse Damage on Trees
> 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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