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What is eating my rowan tree?

Sam76Sam76 Posts: 151
in Problem solving
Something is stripping the bark from my rowan tree. It is in a fenced off area. Sheep or badgers cant get to it. No rabbits in the area. What could it be? Mice?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Are you anywhere near water?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Sam76Sam76 Posts: 151
    Theres a piped drain in the field but its 15 metres away. Could it be drought stress?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2023
    I was thinking more along the lines of you being lucky enough to have endangered water voles living nearby … I believe they have been known to eat bark from the base of trees in hard winters. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Sam76Sam76 Posts: 151
    Its happened in the last few weeks just.
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