Bucks will rub their antlers on trees and leave a big area where the bark comes off, but normally you'd see bits of shredded bark around the rub site. I'm with Fire, that looks just like what our hogs would do rubbing up against trees to get a good scratch. The missing bark could be an old buck rub, though, and just coincidentally on the same tree. The wallows look like pigs rooting. A good trick we've used in the past to get rid of stumps is to drill holes in and around the base of them, and drive cracked corn into the holes. The hogs will rip that stump up to get to it, and it saves having to bring in equipment. If those stumps have some delicious grubs working inside them, wild hogs may root around to try to get to them. I don't know a lot about wild boar, just what I've observed from raising hogs for years. Can you set a trail camera up near there and see what you get?
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Metacomet soil with hints of Woodbridge and Pillsbury
If it's a great spot, you might have a bit of a highway going - bucks, boars, badgers appreciating what the site has to offer - water, a glade, useful contoring - whatever it is. A camera trap would be very interesting, indeed.
In my garden it's so mild that all the worms are out and about, enjoying the nightlife. The frogs are jazzing it up in the pond, the slugs are slumming it as the bulbs are coming up. It's like March.
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It's such a special moment when the bulb tips are just, just showing above the dark earth - a special promise for the coming year. Resilience.
Thanks, @CrankyYankee and @Fire. I'll go back and have another look during the week. Sadly I don't have a camera I'd dare leave unattended because I agree, it would be fascinating to see what goes there.
I had a tip-off last night that Waxwings had finally made it fairly close to here. I read it just before bed while eating some of the Xmas cheese and ended up having dreams of Waxwings all night. The tip was for a housing estate and not much else so I wasn't holding out much hope of finding them. Luckily I used my expert tracking skills to spot the large group of people in camouflage with long lenses and tripods which was a good indicator that I'd found the place. They were out of range of my lens and the pro birders were annoying the residents I think so I left fairly quickly.
Another bit of luck for the day was this Long Tailed Duck which is rare for this area and not very common to see inland. A couple of good last-minute ticks for the bird list this year.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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